When readers across the country pick up a copy of the New York Times on Sunday, they will be confronted with an extraordinarily grim sight.
They will see the names and a peek into the lives of the people who died in the U.S. as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The nearly one thousand obituaries, which fill the entire front page, represent only an estimated 1% of the death toll.
As of Saturday, more than 97,000 people in the U.S. had died from complications with COVID-19.