How do we wrap our minds around the fact that nearly half a million people have died of COVID-19 in the United States alone?
The nation is on the cusp of that milestone: 500,000 lives lost, in just one year.
For the families of those who died of COVID-19, each successive milestone of this pandemic may seem irrelevant to their particular, punishing loss.
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