After 1 million deaths, covid leaves millions more forever changed

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/07/one-million-covid-deaths-families/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

One million dead: The U.S. death toll from the covid-19 pandemic will hit that unfathomable number this week, and yet there is a far larger number that reflects the true impact this virus has had on Americans over the past two years. That number is 9 million — the number of Americans who have lost spouses, parents, grandparents, siblings and children to covid.

Sociologists at Penn State and the University of Southern California came up with a “bereavement multiplier,” a way to calculate how many close relatives each covid death leaves behind and bereft. The answer, on average, is nine — not including extended family or close friends, longtime co-workers or next-door neighbors, many of whom, the study said, are deeply affected, too.

Covid quickly became the third-biggest killer of Americans, behind only heart disease and cancer, according to federal statistics for 2020. One million is how many people live in San Jose, Calif., or Austin, Tex., or in Montgomery County, Md., or Westchester County, N.Y. It’s more people than live in the six smallest states or D.C., about as many as live in Delaware or Rhode Island.

[BigmanPigman]

1. I'm so glad that we are "over it" now....

[niyad]

2. According to worldometer, we are well in excess of 1 million now. And given

that studies are showing that the death tolls are far higher than officially recorded, probably between 2 and 3 million.

[Celerity]

4. yes, the US passed 1 million Covid deaths there on March 24th

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216671705#post3

[Celerity]

3. Month and a half late, the US passed 1 million Covid deaths in March (and actually well before that

due to massive undercounts, but here is the count back then on Worldometers, March 24th)

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100216518328