Deadliest place in America: They shrugged off the pandemic, then their family and friends started dying Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY UP NEXT
QUINTER, Kan. – Sitting in the front seat of a red pickup as wind-whipped sorghum husks fly down Main Street like snowflakes, Ivy Charles fingers the white surgical mask slipped down beneath her chin. He was a puzzle piece who can never be replaced, she says, tears welling into her tired eyes. He was supposed to get better. We weren t expecting him to die.
Just over a month ago, the now-rampaging coronavirus pandemic tore through this rural town of 1,000 and surrounding Gove County, killing 20 residents. Among them was Charles father, Edward Mac McElhaney, 78.
Deadliest place in America: They shrugged off the pandemic, then their family and friends started dying
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