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Behind The Data: Meet The Local People Who Died From COVID-19 Behind The Data: Meet The Local People Who Died From COVID-19
Behind The Data: Meet The Local People Who Died From Covid-19 COVID-19 reporting can focus on numbers and trends, but there are local people behind those data points - including the cofounder of the Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts, a marine who fought at Okinawa, and a lifelong newsman. The following is a closer look at the victims behind the numbers - the local people who lost their lives too early to COVID-19 in January 2021. As COVID-19 surges across Massachusetts and the vaccine slowly rolls out, virus-related deaths persist. As of Tuesday, Jan. 19, about 13,700 people in Massachusetts had died since the start of the pandemic in winter 2…