Mortality Statistics Hide True Toll of Devastation

In 2009, I lost my daughter to cancer. It was devastating. It was the absolute worst day of my entire life. There is not a day that goes by where my heart does not ache deeply for her loss.

On that day, June 9, 2009, her death was simply a statistic, among the many other deaths from critical illness that occurred that day. But buried in that statistic, one that is not easily gleaned from the number, is the devastation left behind the individual death.

And so it goes with COVID-19, which - according to the CDC - has caused more than 1,000,000 "excess deaths" in the United States. An "excess death" is one that occurred above and beyond what is typically expected. COVID-19 caused more than 1,000,000 of them.

And around each of those deaths is numerous family, loved ones, and friends who are left to mourn the loss of that person. The scale of this devastation is hard to fathom, and it will have effects that will last for years - if not decades - to come.

This is why the vast majority of us on the front lines are so adamant that people get vaccinated against COVID-19. We have seen up close what this virus can do, not only to people, but also to the loved ones they leave behind. It is brutal. It is ugly. It is horrific. And we don't want that horror to be visited on anyone else.

The devastation of death goes well beyond the mortality statistic. I just want more people to understand that.

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