How Many Of America's One Million COVID Deaths Were Preventable?
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🗓️ 17 May 2022
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And even though the unvaccinated continue to make up a majority of COVID-19 cases and related hospitalizations, the number of Americans who say they won't get a COVID shot hasn't budged in a year. NPR's John Burnett spoke to a few of them.
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| 0:00.0 | It once felt unimaginable, but we've known it was coming. |
| 0:05.4 | One million lives lost here in the U.S. to COVID. |
| 0:07.9 | More than a million lives cut short across America. |
| 0:11.2 | More than one million lives lost. |
| 0:13.3 | Today, the Biden administration will mark one million lives that have been lost to COVID. |
| 0:18.5 | It's hard to grasp, right? |
| 0:19.9 | This idea of a million people gone in this country alone from the coronavirus. |
| 0:25.3 | One million empty chairs around the family dinner table. |
| 0:29.6 | Each irreplaceable, irreplaceable losses. |
| 0:33.8 | President Biden marked this moment last week at a White House ceremony. |
| 0:37.4 | But it wasn't until today that the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 tracker hit one million deaths. |
| 0:44.5 | And PR and many other news outlets have been relying on this tracker during this pandemic. |
| 0:49.6 | Individual families have been marking these deaths every single day, like Mary Kim, |
| 0:55.8 | talking about her late husband, Aaron. |
| 0:58.0 | I think he developed a personality of laughter and fun to try to avoid the situation that he |
| 1:06.6 | didn't speak really good English. |
| 1:08.8 | And then it does he just developed into that man. |
| 1:11.4 | You know, I am happy and you're going to be happy and we're going to be friends. |
| 1:14.9 | Or Ronald Hardy remembering his wife Robin. |
| 1:18.4 | She will always have a place in my heart. |
| 1:22.6 | And if I had to search all over again, if I had to choose a woman to be my bride again, |
| 1:31.9 | I would search for her. |
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