‘To Me He’s Not A Number’: Families Reflect As U.S. Nears 500,000 COVID-19 Deaths

A few of the nearly 500,000 people who have died from COVID-19 in the U.S.

NPR

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.