COVID-19 has hit every sector of society
Jan 25, 2021
“He’d wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning to get to the hospital for rounds, so he could be at his office when it opened. He never took a break.” That was Dr. Carlos Araujo Preza’s daughter talking about her 51-year-old father, a pulmonologist in Texas who had been on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic before he died of the disease on Nov. 30.
“My mom was the smiling face, the one that everybody loved.” That is how Debra Ivory, 62, owner of a popular barbecue restaurant in Oklahoma City, was remembered by her son after she died of COVID-19 on Dec. 13.
The Washington Post on the U.S. passing the grim milestone of 400,000 COVID-19 deaths:
“He’d wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning to get to the hospital for rounds, so he could be at his office when it opened. He never took a break.” That was Dr. Carlos Araujo Preza’s daughter talking about her 51-year-old father, a pulmonologist in Texas who had been on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic before he died of the disease on Nov. 30.
“My mom was the smiling face, the one that everybody loved.” That is how Debra Ivory, 62, owner of a popular barbecue restaurant in Oklahoma City, was remembered by her son after she died of covid-19 on Dec. 13.
Remember the 400,000 who died in this pandemic gazettextra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettextra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Editorial Roundup: US
Last Updated Jan 20, 2021 at 3:14 pm EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
Jan. 20
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the inauguration of President Joe Biden marking ‘a new day in America’:
Though it was hardly peaceful, it was a transition an essential transition after four years of tumult capped by an insurrection led by the outgoing president to stop Congress from certifying his successor’s election. The historic proportions of President Joe Biden’s inauguration cannot be overstated, and not just for the deadly Jan. 6 assault on democracy that started on the very Capitol overlook where Wednesday’s ceremony occurred. America also broke the thickest of glass ceilings with Wednesday’s inauguration of Kamala Harris as the first woman the first Black and South Asian woman as vice-president.
Defensa y Aldosivi cerraron la Copa Diego Maradona a puro gol unosantafe.com.ar - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from unosantafe.com.ar Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.