.d_arkin, who has been overseeing the NBCNews coronavirus live blog for months, reflects on how the US sees its promise and flaws far more clearly as it reaches a painful milestone.
But perhaps more disturbing were “the numbers” — the infection rates, the hospitalization rates, the fatality rates. The sometimes cold, clinical vocabulary of epidemiology and crisis response could barely disguise the unbearable reality: Americans were dying — first by the hundreds, then by the thousands, then by the tens of thousands — as hospitals turned into veritable war zones.
Mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, neighbors, colleagues, strangers in our own towns and cities and states — 100,000 people gone, leaving unfathomable grief and confusion and anger in their wake.It’s a page containing the names, ages and photos of 60 people who lost their lives to COVID-19, alongside short obituaries and vignettes about their lives.
People cheer for health care workers outside of NYU Langone Health on National Nurse Day in New York on May 6.Health care workers stand in the street in counter-protest of demonstrators demanding stay-at-home orders be lifted in Denver, Colo., on April 19.But even amid these acts of generosity and kindness, familiar social tensions and political battles have not abated, and some have escalated.
It seems clear, by now, that the nation's supply of masks, ventilators, hospital beds and other key tools was initially woefully inadequate. It is distressing but perhaps not altogether surprising that the ostensibly richest, most technologically advanced country on earth was caught flat-footed. The country’s most vulnerable populations, especially impoverished people of color and the uninsured with serious pre-existing health conditions, oftentimes pay a grave cost because of the institutional status quo.
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