'To Me He's Not A Number': Families Reflect As U.S. Passes 500,000 COVID-19 Deaths
Listen • 5:53 How do we wrap our minds around the fact that more than half a million people have died of COVID-19 in the United States alone? The nation just passed that milestone: 500,000 lives lost, in one year. / Sabila Khan / Shafqat Khan was an organizer in the Pakistani immigrant community in New Jersey. He died of COVID on April 14, 2020. "Every day is a milestone for me," says his daughter Sabila Khan. For the families of those who died of COVID-19, each successive milestone of this pandemic may seem irrelevant to their particular, punishing loss. "Every day is ...