How Do We Grieve 300,000 Lives Lost?
Monday, December 14, 2020
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 Washington, D.C. The death toll has now reached 300,000.
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More than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States.
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. The numbers do not reflect that these were people, says Brian Walter, whose 80-year-old father, John, died from COVID-19. Everyone lost was a father or a mother, they had kids, they had family, they left people behind.
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