Vaccine comes too late for the 300,000 Americans who have died from coronavirus
By ADAM GELLER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH The Associated Press,Updated December 14, 2020, 3:53 p.m.
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Pharmacy Manager Shannon Baker prepares a syringe for the new COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to a Lifespan Health Care worker.Elise Amendola/Associated Press
When Brittany Palomo was hired as a nurse in March, her parents tried to talk her out of it, fearful of the fast-spreading coronavirus. All the more reason, she told them, to start the career that had been her long-held dream.
The pandemic, though, is a nightmare one that has now claimed 300,000 lives in the U.S. and counting.
Vaccine comes too late for the 300,000 US dead
by Adam Geller And Heather Hollingsworth, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 14, 2020 3:42 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 14, 2020 at 3:44 pm EDT
When Brittany Palomo was hired as a nurse in March, her parents tried to talk her out of it, fearful of the fast-spreading coronavirus. All the more reason, she told them, to start the career that had been her long-held dream.
The pandemic, though, is a nightmare one that has now claimed 300,000 lives in the U.S. and counting.
“Wake up, my little girl, wake up!” Palomo’s mother, Maria Palomo Salinas, screamed, her grief echoing through a Harlingen, Texas, hospital, when her daughter died of COVID-19 complications around 2 a.m. on a Saturday in late November.
U.S. tops 300,000 deaths from virus, as vaccinations roll out
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By ADAM GELLER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTHAssociated Press
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When Brittany Palomo was hired as a nurse in March, her parents tried to talk her out of it, fearful of the fast-spreading coronavirus. All the more reason, she told them, to start the career that had been her long-held dream.
The pandemic, though, is a nightmare – one that has now claimed 300,000 lives in the U.S. and counting.
Vaccine comes too late for the 300,000 US dead
The real number of lives lost is believed to be much higher, in part because of deaths that were not accurately recorded as coronavirus-related during the early stages of the crisis
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Brittany Palomo was hired as a nurse in March, her parents tried to talk her out of it, fearful of the fast-spreading coronavirus. All the more reason, she told them, to start the career that had been her long-held dream.
The pandemic, though, is a nightmare one that has now claimed 300,000 lives in the U.S. and counting.
“Wake up, my little girl, wake up!” Palomo’s mother,
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