2020 –

COVID-19

From early 2020, and still taking lives

6,883 held · 66 days 885 named here

In the first months of 2020 a new coronavirus spread from country to country faster than anything could be done to stop it. Hospitals filled, cities closed, and the dead were counted in the millions.

While much of the world stayed home, some could not. Police and corrections officers kept answering calls, making arrests, moving prisoners and working face to face with the public, and many caught it doing the job. Corrections officers were hit hardest: confined facilities and large populations meant close, constant exposure.

They are the first named here. They will not be the last. Nurses, doctors, paramedics, firefighters and the people who kept everything else running died of it too, and people are dying of it still.

More than seven million deaths were reported worldwide. Counting the deaths that were never recorded, the true toll is believed to be several times higher. It has not closed.

Died of it

885

They caught it, many of them doing their jobs, and it killed them.

Jonathan David Parnell Donafay Collins Cedric G. Dixon Raymond Andrew Boseman Levi Kelling Arnold Sr. Marylou P. Hernandez-Armer Sypraseuth Phouangphrachanh Kejuane Artez Bates Jeffrey Christopher Hopkins Kenneth J. Moore Bernard T. Waddell Sr. Marco DiFranco Terrell Don Young Shannon Santo Bennett Tolbert A. Furr Dean Michael Savard Alvis Joseph West III Jose Antonio Diaz-Ayala James Walker Jr. Brian Leath Magee Kelvin D. Wilcher Eric K. Murray Nelson Perdomo Kurtis James Enget Clifford Willie Martin Sr. Jack V. Polimeni William J. Sullivan Jr. AlTerek Shaundel Patterson Mark Joseph Romutis Francesco Sebastiano Scorpo Raymond C. Abear Jeffrey Allen Scalf
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Nobody has said anything for COVID-19 yet.

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