For The New York Times Newspaper, COVID-19 Victims Are Not Just Numbers

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"Alan Lund, 81, Washington, conductor with amazing ears ..."

"Theresa Elloie, 63, New Orleans, is best known for her business making detailed pins and corsages ..."

"Florencio Almazo Morán, 65, New York City, a soldier ..."

"Coby Adolph, 44, Chicago, entrepreneur and adventurer ..."

NEW YORK - The names that the editor wrote above are gone. They are only a fraction of the victims of COVID-19 in the United States who have died.

One of the most influential media in the United States, the New York Times, has its own way of remembering the victims of COVID-19 who have left. They dedicated a whole front page to write down 1,000 victims of COVID-19 out of the nearly one hundred thousand people who have died.

"These thousand people represent only 1 percent of the total number of victims. They are not just numbers," wrote this newspaper, Sunday, May 24.

No photo. There are no charts either. Including data on the development of the COVID-19 case on the front page of the New York Times newspaper. There is only a long list of people whose lives have been lost due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The New York Times editorial team is picking up on this momentum as the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States approaches 100,000 deaths. When this news was written, the number of deaths had reached more than 97 thousand people. To reach the 100,000 mark, it is expected to happen in the next few days.

This newspaper, which has been active for months, continues to discuss the coronavirus pandemic. One of the editors at the Graphics Department, Simone Landon, assessed that the public and their newspaper readers may be bored with the rows of data.

"We know there has to be a way to try to calculate that number."

Simone Landon

It is not easy to be able to summarize the names of those who have 'returned'. Researchers plus a team of editors from the editorial desk plus three graduate student journalists, compiled a list of nearly a thousand names from hundreds of newspapers. It's not just a name. They also added a sentence to describe something unique about the victim who died.

"Joe Diffie, 62, Nashville, Grammy-winning country music star".

"Lila A Fenwick, 87, New York City, first black woman to successfully graduate from Harvard University's Law School."

"Myles Coker, 69, New York City, released from prison",

"Jordan Driver Haynes, 27, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a nice young man with a charming smile".

Front page of the New York Times (Photo by Ist)