BREAKING: Over 250,000 Americans have now died from the coronavirus.
The rising toll comes as hospitals fill up and people continue to reject effective measures to reduce the spread for political reasons https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/us-coronavirus-deaths-surpass-quarter-million-people?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
The rising toll comes as hospitals fill up and people continue to reject effective measures to reduce the spread for political reasons https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/us-coronavirus-deaths-surpass-quarter-million-people?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
The good news is hospitals are getting better at treating the coronavirus, pushing the death rate down. The bad news is that more Americans are hospitalized with the disease than ever https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/record-coronavirus-hospitalizations?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
The records come as Americans decide what kind of Thanksgiving they want to have: smaller and safer or larger and riskier https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/coronavirus-thanksgiving-holiday-travel-safety-tips?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
It didn't have to be this bad, but President Trump has continually ignored the severity of the crisis. Last month, he said that COVID-19 deaths are "almost nothing" on a day when about 1,000 Americans died from the disease https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryancbrooks/trump-coronavirus-deaths-jr?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
You shouldn't have had to read about the death of Yevgeniya Belaya, who called her daughters every day, before she was hospitalized and died alone from the coronavirus https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/henrygomez/coronavirus-victim-yevgeniya-belaya?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
Dezann Romain should still be a principal in Brooklyn instead of being mourned by former students who said she "taught us how to become men and women." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/coronavirus-victim-principal-dezann-romain-brooklyn-new-york?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
They are two of the tens of thousands of deaths that America has not even begun to nationally mourn https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/coronavirus-200000-mourning-the-dead?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
There is hope on the horizon: The first vaccines are looking very effective. But distribution challenges remain, and a vaccine is no guarantee life will go back to normal https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/coronavirus-vaccines-faq-timeline?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
Americans will continue to die in the months to come, and obituaries will continue to show us how big the victims' lives were and how unfathomably awful the coronavirus pandemic really is https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katherinemiller/coronavirus-deaths-obituaries-victims-covid-loss?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc
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Read some of their stories here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/the-victims-of-covid-19?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc