Yahoo Sports · Sep 21, 2020
Dear NFL media members: Stop using COVID-19 as a ratings ploy
As of this writing, news reports say nearly 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 in roughly seven months’ time.
That number doesn’t include people who may have died for myriad other reasons tied to the pandemic, from poverty to deaths by suicide, and we may never know the full number of people impacted.
And people aren’t just dying of COVID-19. Some who contract the virus may heal without any lingering issues, but others certainly aren’t.