News Editorial Board
The 1,000 deaths in Erie County attributed to Covid-19 represent a tragic milestone, yet the figure tells only part of the story. The mental and emotional toll from a year full of grieving, fear, illness, economic dislocation and forced isolation cannot be tallied on any spreadsheet.
Survivors of Covid casualties laid bare their emotions in a story in Fridayâs News. There were painful separations as visiting was sharply curtailed at hospitals and long-term care facilities.
âAll that keeps going through my head is that he died alone,â East Aurora resident Robin Steck said of her husband, William, who died of the virus in April at age 56.