( Reuters) – Americans sunbathed on beaches, fished from boats and strolled on boardwalks this vacation weekend, even as the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 fast methods 100,000
The Memorial Day weekend that signals the start of the U.S. summer season is typically a time when cemeteries across the nation fill with American flags and ceremonies to bear in mind those who died in U.S. wars.
This year it has likewise end up being a time to mourn the loss of more than 97,000 people due to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
The New york city Times filled its entire front page with the names and chosen details of 1,000 victims on Sunday seeking to show the humanity of the lives lost.
Graphic: Tracking the novel coronavirus in the U.S. – here
” We were attempting to catch that personal toll,” Marc Lacey, the newspaper’s nationwide editor, informed Reuters. “We were trying to humanize these numbers which keep growing and have reached such unfathomable heights that they’re actually difficult to understand anymore. … This has to do with everyday people. It’s about a death toll, reaching a number that’s actually just jaw-dropping.”
Amongst the victims, drawn from obituaries and death notices in hundreds of U.S. papers: Lila Fenwick, 87, the very first black woman to finish from Harvard Law; Romi Cohn, 91, conserved 56 Jewish families from the Gestapo; Hailey Herrera, 25, budding therapist with a gift for compassion.
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