I'm Martin Powers, it's Saturday, May 30th.

This is a bonus episode of Post Reports.

100,000 Americans did in less than four months.

It's as if every person in Edison, New Jersey or Kenosha, Wisconsin died.

It's half the population of Salt Lake City or Grand Rapids, Michigan.

It's about 20 times the number of people killed in homicides in that length of time, about

twice the number who die of strokes.

Mark Fisher is a senior editor for the Post.

He wrote a story about the grim milestone that the US hit this week.

We asked him to read it for you here.

The death toll from the coronavirus passed that hard to fathom marker on Wednesday, which

slipped by like so many other days in this dark spring.

One more spin of the earth.

One more headline in a numbing cascade of grim news.

Nearly three months into the brunt of the epidemic, 14% of Americans say they know someone

who has succumbed to the virus.

These 100,000 are not nameless numbers, nor are they mostly famous people.

They are overwhelmingly elderly.

In some states, nearly two-thirds of the dead were 80 or older.

They are disproportionately poor and black and Latino.

Among the younger victims, many did work that allowed others to stay at home out of the

virus's reach.

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