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New York Times publishes names of 1,000 lives lost to coronavirus

Wilson Kakuru
Last updated: May 24, 2020 9:03 am
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Wilson Kakuru
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The most important word on the front page of Sunday’s New York Times is “incalculable.”

The total losses from the Covid-19 pandemic are, indeed, incalculable. The losses are greater than any illustration or description. But The Times is trying, in a unique way, by dedicating Sunday’s front page and three inside pages to the names of about one thousand victims.

The result: A front-page devoid of any photographs, news articles, ads, or anything else. The entire page is filled with the dead, under a banner headline that says “U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS.”

Many experts say the Covid-19 death toll is even worse, because some victims died at home or weren’t counted for other reasons. But as the number of confirmed deaths approaches 100,000, editors and reporters at The Times talked about ways to take stock of what has happened in the past few months.

“We knew that there should be some way to try to reckon with that number,” Simone Landon, an assistant editor of the Times’ Graphics desk, said in a behind the scenes feature.
Landon said the project is also a response to “a little bit of fatigue.”
As the national emergency has stretched from days to weeks to months, a certain level of numbness has set in. The numbers are hard to fathom.
So The Times gathered names and stories of Covid-19 victims from newspapers across America.
“The 1,000 people here reflect just 1% of the toll,” the paper’s description of the list says. “None were mere numbers.”
The columns and columns of names are about life as well as death:
  • Angeline Michalopulos, 92, “was never afraid to sing or dance.”
  • Lila Fenwick, 87, was “the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law.”
  • Romi Cohn, 91, “saved 56 Jewish families from the Gestapo.”
  • April Dunn, 33, was an “advocate for disability rights.”
  • Patricia H. Thatcher, 79, “sang in her church choir for 42 years.”
  • Fred Gray, 75, “liked his bacon and hash browns crispy.”
  • Harley E. Acker, 79, “discovered his true calling when he started driving a school bus.”
  • Frank Gabrin, 60, was an “emergency room doctor who died in his husband’s arms.”
  • Skylar Herbert, 5, was “Michigan’s youngest victim of the coronavirus pandemic.”
  • Philip Kahn, 100, “World War II veteran whose twin died in the Spanish Flu epidemic a century ago.”
  • William D. Greeke, 55, “thought it was important to know a person’s life story.”
An incalculable loss.
Dan Barry, a veteran writer for The Times, has an essay inside the paper about “The Human Toll” of the pandemic to date.
“Imagine,” he writes, “a city of 100,000 residents that was here for New Year’s Day but has now been wiped from the American map.”
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