'It's important for us to take this time as we reach this milestone to really thing back about what has happened and what we can do better going forward.'
We are nearing a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic with one million American deaths."Early in this pandemic, people were talking about 100,000 deaths as being a number that we would never reach," said David Dowdy, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.A number Dowdy said, unfortunately, does not mark the end of the pandemic.
Dowdy noted that the average case is becoming milder for young, healthy, vaccinated people. But those people still pose a risk to others with compromised immune systems. Eiccholz passed away on March 29, 2020, at the very beginning of the pandemic. Her daughters Amy and Kim said tests were scarce, few people were masking, and the COVID vaccine didn't exist."She never should have been in that position where she should have passed, we don't think, had it been different," said Kim Gross.