UpdatedWed, Dec 23, 2020 at 1:25 pm ET
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COVID-19 is an orphan maker. Asare Amaya, 10, lost her father, German Amaya, to the coronavirus. His funeral was held in Miami, Florida, in August, with most mourners attending via a Zoom call. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images, File)
ACROSS AMERICA As the coronavirus vaccine went into the first of Americans arms Tuesday, nine months after the outbreak was declared a global health pandemic, the counter on the U.S. death toll rolled over past 300,000. It s a horrific milestone by any measure, but the days since have been marked by single-day death records that smash the ones set before, plunging Americans deeper by the day into grief and despair.