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Virginia Boothe, a palliative care physician, retired at 69. She loved her work helping people navigate the final chapter of life, but it was relentlessly trying, one emotionally fraught day blending into the next. She was ready to cast off the burdens of medical bureaucracy, the endless battles with insurance companies to get her patients the treatment they needed. "I wanted to take a step back from human suffering," she said.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and inte

FEBRUARY - The month had an extra day in it in 2020 as it was a Leap Year, but it was also late in the month the U.S. began making preparations for a novel coronavirus, later named COVID-19. On Feb. 29, there were 83,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, nearly all in China. A few had been detected in the U.S., but there were no confirmed cases yet in Ohio, though seven people had tested negative and 212 people were being watched because they had recently traveled out of the country. By early December, there were 14.2 million cases in the U.S., 447,000 of which were in Ohio and 1,146 in Henry Coun...