“There’s a reminder of how she died, literally every single day, multiple times a day,” said Erin Reiner, whose mother, Gwen Wilson, was a champion bowler and quilter in Kansas until her death at the age of 72.įor more than two years, Americans have made their way through a pandemic that has upended plans, brought tumult and despair, and sickened millions.īut one group has been forced onto a separate path. He worries that he brought the virus into their apartment, wonders if her death was his fault and asks the unanswerable: Why did he survive Covid, but she did not?Ī woman in Minnesota whose mother died from the coronavirus is mired in what she calls “Covid grief.” It deepens when she sees the pandemic mentioned on Facebook, when someone says how happy they are to be reuniting with loved ones again, when she is forced to listen to chatter of masks or politics or vaccines. I still feel as though I am missing a limb.Ī man in New York City who lost his wife to Covid ruminates on the days before she got sick two years ago. I will never go back to normal, she thinks to herself. Anyone can read what you share.Ī widow in North Carolina whose husband died of Covid-19 feels crushed when she hears people talk casually about life in America returning to normal. Many of the loved ones they left behind are grieving in a nation that wants to move on.Īs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month.

Nearly one million people have died from Covid in the United States.

The pandemic has been a source of disruption and misery to all Americans.īut those who lost people to Covid have traveled a different, isolated path.

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