If we held a moment of silence for every American who died of COVID it would take nearly two years at a rate of 24 hours a day to cover every name.

More than 6.6 million people worldwide and counting have died of COVID -- including more than a million Americans.

These are all people who loved and were loved.

This is an extraordinary and grim statistic, as on May 11, the CDC declared that the Federal COVID -19 Public Health Emergency has ended.

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