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The U.S. ‘Battles’ Coronavirus, But Is It Fair To Compare Pandemic To A War? By Carrie Feibel  February 3, 2021 Counting the dead is one of the first, somber steps in reckoning with an event of enormous tragic scope, be that war, natural disaster or a pandemic. This dark but necessary arithmetic has become all too routine during the COVID-19 outbreak. January was the deadliest month so far in the U.S.; the virus killed more than 95,458 Americans. The total U.S death toll has now surpassed 441,000. Each death is unique, a devastating loss that ripples through a family, a network, a co...

Image credit: Universal History Archive Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. Counting the dead is one of the first, somber steps in reckoning with an event of enormous tragic scope, be that war, natural disaster, or a pandemic. This dark but necessary arithmetic has become all too routine during the COVID-19 outbreak. January was the deadliest month so far in the U.S.; the virus killed more than 95,458 Americans. The total U.S death toll has no...

Sick patients were isolated in converted warehouses during the 1918-19 global influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million worldwide. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty) Counting the dead is one of the first, somber steps in reckoning with an event of enormous tragic scope, be that war, natural disaster or a pandemic. This dark but necessary arithmetic has become all too routine during the COVID-19 outbreak. January was the deadliest month so far in the U.S.; the virus killed more than 95,458 Americans. The total U.S death toll has now surpassed 441,000. ...

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: The enormous loss of life from COVID-19 has many of us searching for comparisons, times in history when the U.S. suffered and made it through. The devastating toll from covid has surged past 420,000 lives lost. That is more than all the Americans killed in World War II. But is that a valid comparison between two otherwise quite different events? Reporter Will Stone covers the coronavirus pandemic for NPR, and he weighed in on how his thinking has evolved in making that comparison. WILL STONE, BYLINE: What I've learned is this can actually backfire. Listeners have written...