As the US approached 100,000 coronavirus deaths, The New York Times marked the grim milestone with a stark memorial on its front page
A woman looks at a computer screen with a tweet by the New York Times newspaper account showing the early edition front page of Sunday's paper with a list of 1,000 names printed on it.NEW YORK - As the United States approached 100,000 coronavirus deaths, The New York Times on Sunday marked the grim milestone with a stark memorial on its front page -- one-line obituaries for 1,000 victims.
"The 1,000 people here reflect just one percent of the toll. None were mere numbers," the newspaper said in a short introduction on the front page, which was entirely covered in text. The United States has been the hardest-hit country in the coronavirus pandemic by far, in deaths and number of infections.As of Saturday evening, the US had recorded 97,048 deaths and 1.6 million cases of the virus, and will likely reach 100,000 fatalities in a matter of days.
Victims featured by the Times included"Joe Diffie, Grammy-winning country music star," and"Lila A. Fenwick, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School." Also:"Myles Coker, freed from life in prison,""Ruth Skapinok, backyard birds were known to eat from her hand," and"Jordan Driver Haynes, generous young man with a delightful grin."Marc Lacey, the paper's national editor, said,"I wanted something that people would look back on in 100 years to understand the toll of what we're living through."Source
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