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The new coronavirus has been charged Cleon Boyd. Then, six days later, he took his same double brother, Leon. As they died, the disease spread through their families, infecting 11 of their immediate relatives.
The heartbreaking joy of the Boyd family spread to the cities where they lived and worked, radically converting attitudes towards the coronavirus and spreading the adoption of masks and social estating.
From rural Vermont, where Boyd twins are guilty of two of the three covid-19 deaths in their county in the Bronx, where another 4,000 people have succumbed to the virus, the trauma resulting from some 200,000 deaths in the United States has changed the outlook. and habit of family, friends, neighbors and colleagues.
While the country is about to take another dark step in the long and fatal march of the virus, in sight, political battles over how to curb its spread have stolen much of the country’s attention, making it harder to realize how much the effect of each and every death can be.
Two hundred thousand dead is like wasting the entire population of Salt Lake City or Montgomery, Alabama. There are also the number of Covid-19-like deaths that President Donald Trump said at a press conference on March 29 would mean that “we’ve all done a task together. “
Six months later, however, Americans are moving away from the news of the pandemic. Google’s virus searches have fallen by nearly 90% since March. Americans tell pollsters that they have little hope that the danger will soon disappear.