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Comparing death tolls from covid to past wars is fraught – News-Medical.Net
Counting the dead is one of the first, somber steps in reckoning with an event of enormous tragic scope, be it war, a natural disaster or a pandemic.
Counting the dead is one of the first, somber steps in reckoning with an event of enormous tragic scope, be it war, a natural disaster or a pandemic.
This dark but necessary arithmetic has become all too routine during the covid-19 outbreak.
The total U.S death toll has now surpassed 450,000.
Each death is unique, a devastating loss that ripples through a family, a network, a community. But in the aggregate, the national death toll can feel abstract, and its repetition in the news can become numbing….
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