Processing the Grief and Trauma of Losing a Loved One to COVID-19
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4.2 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 1:26.1 | Coming up on forum, the staggering U.S. death toll from COVID-19 |
| 1:29.7 | has left hundreds of thousands of families grieving. California alone has now lost nearly |
| 1:35.1 | 39,000 residents to the virus. The numbers don't show the whole picture either. Multiple losses |
| 1:41.5 | within families, people waiting weeks to bury or cremate loved ones, |
| 1:46.0 | communities losing elders and cultural anchors. In this hour, we talk about coping with the grief |
| 1:52.0 | and trauma of losing loved ones to difficult and different for everyone. |
| 2:20.3 | And losing someone to the coronavirus pandemic has made that process harder. In this hour, we explore how. |
| 2:27.7 | And invite you to join the conversation if you'd like with your thoughts or questions about the experience of losing loved ones to COVID-19. |
| 2:34.9 | Joining me first is Sam Levin, Los Angeles correspondent for The Guardian, who's been covering |
| 2:40.0 | the effects of the COVID crisis in Los Angeles, and then his grandmother, Debbie, who lived |
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