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A year into the pandemic, strangers find healing in their shared grief
In the year since WHO declared a global pandemic, millions are trying to come to terms with loss in a country desperate to move on.
For those who lost loved ones during the pandemic, the circumstances of their deaths have left lasting scars. Now, a year after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, millions of Americans are attempting to find healing and community.Photograph by Nicola Muirhead
ByNina Strochlic
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Shortly before Christmas, Flor Betancourt visited her neurologist for a routine appointment. She couldn’t help but mention that her younger brother died of COVID-19 last spring, and hadn’t called or texted her to say goodbye. Since last April 26, she’d been torturing herself and everyone she knew with the same question: Why hadn’t Juan called her from the hospital or answered her calls? ....

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