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Janis Pyle: Visualizing 570,299 lives lost to COVID-19
Janis Pyle, Guest Columnist
Until a recent breakthrough experience, I could only begin to comprehend the ever-growing number on the righthand panel of my TV screen, the U.S. deaths from COVID-19.
As I write this on the morning of April 22, it reads 570,299, according to CNN.
Understanding the magnitude of our collective loss and tending my personal grief have been a necessary passage before fully entering Life after The Lockdown.
Others’ attempts to give face and voice to individual victims have helped along my process of fathoming the loss. Among them:
Nicole Wallace’s daily segments on MSNBC, “Remembering Lives Well-Lived,” often move me to tears.