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Through Zoom trainings and virtual lobbying days, people who have lost loved ones or their own health to the coronavirus are trying to influence federal policy.
Pamela Addison created a Facebook support group, “Young Widows and Widowers of Covid-19,” after her husband, Martin, died last year.Credit.Desiree Rios for The New York Times
March 17, 2021
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The lost: Capital Region lives ended by COVID-19
The pandemic has upended the nation, but its truest cost is felt by friends and families
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558.
That s the minimum count of how many people, as of this writing, have succumbed to COVID-19 in the greater Capital Region.
In less than 10 months.
That is a wartime number a casualty list perhaps more in keeping with the recounting of Civil War regimental losses than of anything understood in the modern era.
Scientists who study the way the human brain processes big numbers say we’re not very good at it. The larger the number, the less we re likely to feel a strong emotional response to it.