Nine months and 1 million lives lost

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

From the first wave in February in China through New York City and on to India’s current surge, the coronavirus has unleashed a worldwide suffering with no evident exit. As we pass a grim milestone, we try to get a sense for a few of the people we’ve lost.

This week, the worldwide death toll of covid-19 has now surpassed 1 million people. That’s 1 million lives lost in just nine months.

And as we’ve been hearing about and thinking about this huge number, our colleagues at The Post have been trying to grapple with this challenge: How do you make 1 million deaths feel real?

Senior editor Marc Fisher reports on the sound of loss and hope around the globe.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi, good afternoon. This is Tulu, Aurora, Niko with the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hi, this is Amy Britton calling me on the post.
0:12.0	This is Peter J. This is from the Washington.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports. I'm routine powers.
0:18.0	It's Wednesday, September 30th.
0:21.0	Today, a grim milestone.
0:26.0	The lives that have been lost and the people who are left behind.
0:35.0	This week, we reached a new bleak point in the pandemic.
0:39.0	The worldwide death toll of COVID-19 has now surpassed 1 million people.
0:44.0	That's 1 million lives lost in just 9 months.
0:48.0	And as we've been hearing about and thinking about this huge number,
0:52.0	our colleagues at the post have been trying to grapple with this challenge.
0:56.0	How do you make 1 million deaths feel real?
1:00.0	I'm Mark Fisher and I'm a senior editor at the Washington Post.
1:03.0	In recent months, I've had the opportunity to work with a number of my colleagues
1:08.0	who put together stories about the impact and just the detail of all of these deaths from COVID-19.
1:17.0	And so at each big milestone, at 50,000, 100,000, 150,000 deaths,
1:23.0	we've asked colleagues across the country to find cases of families that lost someone to COVID-19.
1:31.0	And my fear, as we tried to do, a much more ambitious story,
1:35.0	which was looking at the marker of a million deaths across the world,
1:40.0	my fear was that there's a kind of sameness to these stories as tragic as each one
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