I haven’t stopped thinking about this Twitter account honoring COVID-19 victims

• At least one Twitter account has been tracking coronavirus deaths among a specific demographic -- health care workers who've lost their lives to the COVID-19 virus.
  
• This Twitter account posts blurbs about those health care workers, making the account a constantly updated memorial to victims of the coronavirus pandemic.
• As of Wednesday, more than 201,000 people have been recorded as dying from the coronavirus thus far in the US.

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The faces are so haunting. As you scroll through the Twitter account that belongs to @CTZebra, the name of which makes clear the account is meant to honor "US HCWs Lost to COVID19," you see one face after another staring back at you -- faces of the lives lost to the terrible coronavirus pandemic that's hammered the entire world.

They belong to people like Marie Brumbaugh. Each health care worker lost to COVID-19, like her, gets a blurb on this Twitter account that tracks coronavirus deaths, from which we learn that Brumbaugh was a 40-year-old medical assistant in Branson, Missouri. She died from the coronavirus earlier this month after having spent a month on a ventilator, eventually suffering a catastrophic stroke. She left behind three children, the youngest of whom is just 10 years old. Meanwhile, just below Brumbaugh's blurb, there's another honoring Dr. Bruce Greene -- a 61-year-old psychiatrist from West Orange, New Jersey, who died of COVID-19 back in mid-April.

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