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As US deaths approach 300,000, obituaries force reckoning with COVID By Julie Bosman New York Times,Updated December 13, 2020, 10:29 p.m. Email to a Friend Preparations for a funeral at Adolf Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Willowbrook, Ill., on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.LUCY HEWETT/NYT CHICAGO — When Kim Miller sat down in her Illinois house to compose her husband’s obituary, she could not hold back. Not about the coronavirus that had left Scott, her fit, healthy spouse who loved to swim, golf and putter in the garden, gasping for breath and unable to move his limbs as he stood at...

U.S. Starts Vaccine Rollout as High-Risk Health Care Workers Go First Last Updated Jan. 4, 2021, 5:17 a.m. ETJan. 4, 2021, 5:17 a.m. ET The first shots were given as the U.S. surpassed 300,000 virus-related deaths. Vaccinations also began in Canada. This briefing has ended. Follow our Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester in Queens on Monday.Credit...Pool photo by Mark Lennihan The first shots were given in the American mass vaccination campaign on Monday, opening a new chapter in the batt...