Updated on December 31, 2020 at 3:46 pm
Almost every semblance of normalcy has been taken away from people across the globe in 2020 but there s no loss greater than the lives taken by a disease that was unimaginable a year ago.
Among the more than 1,300 lives lost in San Diego County this year were brand new fathers, longtime grandmothers, young daughters and devoted spouses. They were nurses and frontline workers, military veterans and hobbyists with undeniable passion.
Their deaths mean there are more than 1,400 families spending the holidays without their loved ones this year, at a time when the virus is taking lives at a rampant rate more than 70 people with the disease died in San Diego in the last week alone. Across the country, there are more than 340,000 families without their loved ones.
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SAN DIEGO We all know this hasn’t been an easy year.
When San Diego County first imposed stay-at-home orders in March, officials said they hoped the region would return to some semblance of normalcy within a few weeks. Nine months later, now on our second lockdown order, COVID-19 cases and deaths are skyrocketing.
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