"That should be absolutely stunning. At what point do we wake up and say, this can't be normalized?"- Dr. Craig Spencer, director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.
"I'm really amazed at how we have this sense of apathy." -Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe, professor of medicine and population health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
"I'm feeling much more anger and frustration than I did before because much of what we're dealing with now was preventable." -Dr Darrell Owens, Seattle, Wash.
"These are so often preventable losses."-Katherine Evering-Rowe, a therapist, COVID Grief Network, Philadelphia.
"That 300,000 Americans would be dead and life would go on and people would not have empathy for their fellow Americans,I can tell you this is worse than being in war. I call this a crime against humanity, because that's exactly what this is."-ER doctor Cleavon Gilman, a veteran of the Iraq war, says it's still hard to communicate the brutality of a disease that kills people in the privacy of a hospital wing, not on the streets.
"Nobody wants to hear sad stories like these, people don't want to."-Nurse Jessica Scarlett, McAllen, Texas.