How Do We Grieve 300,000 Lives Lost?
Eleven months into the COVID-19 crisis, an unimaginable death toll has been reached. NPR spoke to doctors, nurses and the bereaved about how they face loss every day.
December 14, 2020, 5:35 PM
White flags planted by volunteers visualize lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19 as part of an installation by artist Suzanne Firstenberg in D.C. The death toll has now reached 300,000.
More than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S.
It is the latest sign of a generational tragedy one still unfolding in every corner of the country that leaves in its wake an expanse of grief that cannot be captured in a string of statistics.
With 300,000 COVID-19 Deaths And Counting, The U S Faces Unfathomable Loss : Shots
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Medical staff members Flor Trevino (L) and Susan Paradela attempt to change the bed sheet of a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 7, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura/Getty Images/AFP
American regulators were due to meet Thursday to assess the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency approval, as the country logged one of its worst-ever daily Covid-19 death tolls with more than 3,000 people lost to the pandemic.
Other northern hemisphere countries were also grappling with a winter virus surge, as the number of global infections raced towards 70 million with more than 1.5 million deaths.