The prestigious newspaper The New York Times dedicated a report this Sunday to the “incalculable human loss” caused in almost three months by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and completely filled its cover with brief obituaries of 1,000 of the deceased, when the count is already close to 100,000.
The shocking image on the first page, widely shared on social networks, is a long list of six columns that names, crude age and life history the crude figures of the tragedy under the headline “Deaths in the United States are approaching 100,000, an incalculable loss “, remembering that those people” were us “.
The editor of the graphic table of the New York Times, Simone Landon, indicated through her Twitter account that on the solemn cover appears “1% of those who have died” and in the digital edition their stories are emphasized interactively , hoping that readers “spend a little time with each one of them.”
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The tribute provides insight into lives such as that of 84-year-old Samuel Hargress Jr., who owned the Paris Blues jazz venue in New York; Mike Field, 59, an emergency worker who came to help with the attacks of September 11, 2001; Mary Santiago, 44, an Illinois mother; o April Dunn, 33, a disability advocate for Louisiana.
We put 1,000 names in the paper, 1 percent of those who have died. Online, we’re emphasizing their stories. https://t.co/NMuGXBNf8L
– Simone Landon (@simonelandon) May 24, 2020
In another article about the development of the piece, the NYT journalists highlight that in view of the sad number of 100,000 deaths due to the new coronavirus, they were aware of the “data fatigue” and reviewed obituaries in hundreds of national newspapers to Obtain phrases that show “the special of each lost life”, something that resembles a “tapestry”.
In the electronic edition, the report takes a visual aspect and scrolls down the page to read the short stories, with accounts of the deceased by chronological date and an essay on the “absence of a clear ending” during the pandemic, in the that “even the dead have had to wait” to be dismissed by their loved ones.
