This is our generation’s D-Day : As US surpasses 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, weary health care workers fight on amid the heartbreak Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY
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SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly a year into a life-altering pandemic, many Americans are fed up with wearing masks, desperate for a return to normalcy and numb to the relentless stream of grim numbers, such as the 500,000 COVID-19 deaths the USA surpassed Monday.
Health care workers don’t want to hear any of that.
They have been working endless hours amid constant death and suffering, forsaking time off and exposing themselves to the disease, leaving them exhausted and with no real indication of when the pandemic will relent.
Oregon reported one death and 111 confirmed or presumptive cases of COVID-19 Sunday, raising the death toll to 2,155 and statewide case count to 152,818.
Just over a year since the first known US COVID-19 death, more than 500,000 people will have died from the disease by the end of this week. It s something that is historic. It s nothing like we ve ever been though in the last 102 years since the 1918 influenza pandemic, said Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. It really is a terrible situation that we ve been through and that we re still going through. And that s the reason why we keep insisting to continue with the public health measures â because we don t want this to get much worse than it already is.