Quantifying trauma: death, data, and memorial collecting

Abstract

journal articleBy the end of May 2020, just a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the death toll in the US was already nearing one hundred thousand-but what did that number even look like? For those of us who had not lost someone or who were not working on the frontlines, lockdown in many ways shielded us from the reality of such a massive loss. To us, it seemed, as the New York Times would refer to it, incalculable