As you may have seen, the newspaper front page is always covered with photographs or advertisements of some big brands but instead of all this The New York Times on Sunday, published a list which is a list of solemn lists of people whose lives were lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
?Worst hit coronavirus country United States approaches 1,00,000, the numbers are expected to reach more in coming days.?
The Times have been covering the coronavirus pandemic for months now. But the team at times realized and Assistant graphics editor Simone Landon said that ¡°both among ourselves and perhaps in the general reading public, there¡¯s a little bit of a fatigue with the data.¡±?
¡°We knew that there should be some way to try to reckon with that number.¡±
The front page which has a continuous on the second page as well with 1000 names, this is just a fraction of the total loss in the U.S during the outbreak so far.?
The US death toll stands at more than 97,000, it is by far the highest number in the world and The Times said that they are considering to mark the expected milestone of 100,000.?
She further said that the team of researchers were asked to obtain the lists from piles of US newspapers that have COVID-19 as a cause of death and extract them with the details ¡°that depicted the uniqueness of each life lost¡±.?
The Times tweeted the image of the front page on Saturday afternoon and within hours it had 61,000 retweets and more than 116,000 likes which is huge.?