May 24, 2020
The New York Times dedicates front page to COVID-19 victims
The
New York Times today replaced its usual front page with the names of hundreds
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of the virus on its front page and three others inside the newspaper under the
gut-wrenching headline “U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS.”
The
media house made the unusual, but pointed, decision as the United States creeps
ever closer to the previously unimaginable death toll of 100,000, far more
casualties than any other nation in the world.
With
its toll at 97,211, according to the John Hopkins University’s virus tracker,
the US accounts for 26 per cent of the global tally.
What’s
worse is the death toll could be greater as many victims could have died at
home or not had their deaths attributed to COVID-19 for whatever reason.
“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.
The
1,000 names aimed to put faces to the victims as “none were mere numbers” the
Times’ descriptions said.
Included in its tribute were:
Lila Fenwick, 87, “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.”
Frank Gabrin, 60, was an “emergency room
doctor who died in his husband’s arms”
Philip Kahn, 100, “World War II veteran whose
twin died in the Spanish Flu epidemic a century ago.”
The US is expected to cross the dreadful
milestone sometime in June.
