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A few of the nearly 500,000 people who have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. (NPR)
How do we wrap our minds around the fact that nearly half a million people have died of COVID-19 in the United States alone?
The nation is on the cusp of that milestone: 500,000 lives lost, in just one year.
Shafqat Khan was an organizer in the Pakistani immigrant community in New Jersey. He died of COVID on April 14, 2020. “Every day is a milestone for me,” says his daughter Sabila Khan. (Sabila Khan)
For the families of those who died of COVID-19, each successive milestone of this pandemic may seem irrelevant to their particular, punishing loss.