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Day after day, Abby Adair Reinhard slumped out of her home office around dinnertime, her father s death from COVID-19 still fresh in her mind. Working to keep her flooring business afloat and worried about her mother s health, she had little time for her three young kids. I would come out see my kids and think, Oh, good, at least they are all still alive, she said. And that s horrible to admit.
Reinhard s father, who died in April, was among the first Americans to lose their lives from what at the time was a new virus sweeping the nation. Donald Adair, 76, had gone into the hospital after a fall and caught the virus from his hospital bed.
Florida Times-Union
7 p.m. | President Biden honors 500,000 US COVID-19 deaths with moment of silence
Five hundred candles glowed around President Joe Biden as he stood outside the White House in a moment of silence to honor the lives of the more than 500,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19.
“Today we mark a truly heartbreaking milestone: 500,071 dead,” Biden said during remarks in the Cross Hall of the White House before the moment of silence. “That s more Americans who have died in one year in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War combined. That s more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth.”
Coronavirus in Jacksonville: What you need to know for Sunday, Feb. 21
3:35 p.m. | Northeast Florida reports 20 COVID-19 deaths, 95 across state
The Florida Department of Health listed 95 more COVID-19 deaths in Sunday s daily report on the coronavirus pandemic, with 20 of them in Northeast Florida.
Duval County accounted for 14 of the newly-recorded deaths, in addition to three in Putnam County, two in Clay County and one in St. Johns County.
The Duval County death toll was Sunday s second-largest in the state, exceeded only by the 16 in Broward County, although deaths added to the state list often occurred multiple days or weeks earlier.
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