These are just numbers, though. Numbers can’t quantify how much a person means to someone. They can’t tell you they love you, or make you laugh or cry or feel safe. People do. That’s who we are losing in this pandemic. Not numbers. Advertisement “This virus is taking away a whole generation of mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, you know, who are young kids, teenage kids,” Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last year. “And it occurred to me that what we’re seeing really is the historic decimation among the Hispanic community by the virus.”