It's a death toll that's impossible to fathom: 1M lives lost to #Covid19. As the United States officially passes that tragic milestone, @jaspar digs into the patterns to look at who died, and when. https://t.co/MxyKXaa82X
— Helen Branswell ?? (@HelenBranswell) May 10, 2022
Officially, the U.S. will almost certainly reach an awful milestone in the next two weeks: its one millionth recorded Covid-19 death.
In reality, this milestone was likely unofficially crossed days or weeks ago, and we’ll never know the exact toll or the identity of the pandemic’s actual millionth victim. Nor are humans well-equipped to fully grasp loss on this scale, let alone the magnitude of a global toll estimated to be as high as 14.9 million.
One way to start understanding how a country as advanced as the U.S. lost so many people is to look at the ocean of public health data that was gathered as 1 million individual tragedies rippled through civic life.
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