Gettin kinda close.”Nearly 400,000 Americans have now died of covid-19. Each death from covid-19 is at once a number and a unique tragedy, and each is a strangely distant demise — so many invisible deaths in lonely places. A medical worker is reflected from equipment while treating a covid-19 patient last month at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston. When he went to pick up his partner’s backpack, a nurse told Riddell that Neher had “told her that he was scared. On a Thanksgiving Zoom call, Ong told Jasmine that the hospital was full.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2021 14:36 UTC