COVID Took Many in the Prime of Life, Leaving Families to Pick Up the Pieces

In the U.S., people of color on average have had younger ages of death from COVID than whites – and lower-income communities have been hardest hit. "Many of these deaths have come in people in the prime of life. As the U.S. approaches the grim milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID, the nation has yet to reckon with the effects of these losses," says Debra Furr-Holden, an epidemiologist at Michigan State University who has been studying the disparate effects of the pandemic. 

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