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May 24, 2020 The pandemic scourges the United States approaching 100,000 coronavirus deaths. The New York Times has decided to publish the names and short obituaries of a thousand victims on the front page of Sunday in order to mark a milestone in the history of the epidemic.

"A thousand people represent only one percent of the total death toll - explains the newspaper in a brief introduction on the page entirely occupied by the text. None of them were just a number."

"Joe Diffie, 62, Nashville, Grammy-winning country music star" - reads one of them and "Lila A. Fenwick, 87, New York City, first black woman who graduated from Harvard Law School". And again "Myles Coker, 69, New York City, freed from prison life", "Ruth Skapinok, 85, Roseville, California, the birds of the courtyard loved to eat from his hand" and "Jordan Driver Haynes, 27, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, generous young man with a delightful smile. "

"I wanted something that people could look at in 100 years to understand the extent of what we are experiencing," explained national editor Marc Lacey