

His 6-year-old granddaughter Izzy collapsed in grief when she found her ‘’papa’s” flag - a moment captured by a photographer and shared on Twitter. One honored 80-year-old Carey Alexander Washington of South Carolina, who was vaccinated and contracted the virus while still working as a clinical psychologist in March. capital was literally breathtaking, representing the more than 740,000 Americans killed by COVID-19, the highest official national death toll in the world. The collective impact of white flags covering 20 acres on the National Mall in the U.S. Memorial flags, hearts, ribbons: These simple objects have stood in for virus victims, representing lost lives in eye-catching memorials from London to Washington D.C., and Brazil to South Africa.
