NEW YORK – The emotional center of Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show often comes at the very end, when statistics are set aside to tell the story of a life cut short by COVID-19.
The “Lives Well Lived” feature, which is being expanded into a prime-time special on Wednesday to commemorate a year since the pandemic altered America, is one of a handful of continuing efforts in the media to give a face to suffering.
Every Friday, the “In Memoriam” feature on PBS' “NewsHour” profiles five Americans from all walks of life who died of COVID-19.
The New York Times usually does one obituary a day of a virus victim under the “Those We've Lost” banner. Several CNN shows make it a point to tell individual stories.