Three ways of visualizing the coronavirus 500,000 death toll in the U.S.

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500,000 dead, a number almost too large to grasp A little less than a year ago, covid-19 had killed just a handful of people in the United States. Now, the pandemic’s official death toll equals the size of a major city, more than the population of Kansas City and nearly as many as Atlanta or Sacramento. It can be hard to grasp the enormity — half a million people, gone. What if we imagined them traveling as one group? Or killed in action? Or all buried together? Artur Galocha, Bonnie Berkowitz Washington Post

Here are three ways to visualize the monstrous death toll of the coronavirus in this country ...

 

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