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The Boston Globe published 16 pages of obituaries, echoing a Lombardy newspaper which also grew the section during the coronavirus outbreak

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The Boston Globe's obituary section ran to 16 pages on Sunday, April 19. Twitter/Julio Ricardo Varela/Business Insider
  • The Boston Globe printed 16 pages of obituaries on Sunday, far more than it usually carries, the paper reported in an article on the section.
  • Although it is not possible to know which deaths are as a result of the coronavirus, at the same time a year earlier the death notices ran to just seven pages, according to The Globe.
  • Readers remarked on the section, just as readers of an Italian paper, L'Eco di Bergamo, did when its own death notices section expanded massively at the height of that country's crisis.
  • Massachusetts is the third most-affected state in the US, with 38,077 confirmed coronavirus cases and 1,706 dead, according to The Guardian.
For the same time last year, the section was just seven pages, said the paper. But as the virus continued its spread in the state, by Sunday 12 April it had grown to 10 pages — the same number as appeared in a Lombardy paper, L'Eco di Bergamo, at the height of the Italian crisis.

A week later on April 20, the section grew to 16 pages. In an article about the expanded section, the Globe called its death notices "a stark reminder of the death toll that COVID-19 is taking on the state."

Massachusetts is the third worst-affected state in the US for the virus, with 38,077 confirmed cases and a death toll of 1,706, according to The Guardian.
 
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