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Here’s a look at false and misleading claims circulating as the United States rolled out the newly authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to some health care workers and others. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
CLAIM: A 42-year-old nurse in Alabama died after she received the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.
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THE FACTS: No health care workers died after Alabama began administering COVID-19 vaccines to them on Tuesday. Yet posts online began falsely claiming that a nurse had died after receiving the vaccine. The posts circulated on Facebook and Twitter, with some users suggesting it was their aunt who had died or they had received the information from a close friend. Social media users shared screenshots of text messages that said, “omg just found out my aunt de
More than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States.
It is the latest sign of a generational tragedy one still unfolding in every corner of the country that leaves in its wake an expanse of grief that cannot be captured in a string of statistics. The numbers do not reflect that these were people, said Brian Walter, of New York City, whose 80-year-old father, John, died from COVID-19. Everyone lost was a father or a mother, they had kids, they had family, they left people behind.
There is no analogue in recent U.S history to the
scale of death brought on by the coronavirus, which now runs unchecked in countless towns, cities and states.
How Do We Grieve 300,000 Lives Lost?
Eleven months into the COVID-19 crisis, an unimaginable death toll has been reached. NPR spoke to doctors, nurses and the bereaved about how they face loss every day.
December 14, 2020, 5:35 PM
White flags planted by volunteers visualize lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19 as part of an installation by artist Suzanne Firstenberg in D.C. The death toll has now reached 300,000.
More than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S.
It is the latest sign of a generational tragedy one still unfolding in every corner of the country that leaves in its wake an expanse of grief that cannot be captured in a string of statistics.
Image credit: Roberto Schmidt
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More than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States.
It is the latest sign of a generational tragedy one still unfolding in every corner of the country that leaves in its wake an expanse of grief that cannot be captured in a string of statistics.
“The numbers do not reflect that these were people,” says Brian Walter, whose 80-year-old father, John, died from COVID-19. “Everyone lost was a father or a mother, they had kids, they had family, they left people behind.”