Why CNN aired a national memorial service for 500,000 lives lost from Covid-19 CNN 2/23/2021 © CNN Jake Tapper Covid 500k
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More than 500,000 Americans dead from Covid. More than 500,000 lives cut short by a pandemic the rest of us will never forget. Journalists are stretching for words and illustrations and imagery to meet the magnitude of the moment.
As NPR s Pien Huang wrote Monday, Losing half a million lives to this disease was unimaginable when the first few people died of COVID-19 in the U.S last February.
Huang quoted Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, a past president of the American Public Health Association, who said the massive number and the loss of those people from our society has not been acknowledged. We cannot think these people are disposable and dispensable and that we can just get along very well without them. It s those kinds of blinders that sap the strength of the whole societ
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