Putting COVID-19 deaths in perspective

Big news hit the Transcript newsroom on Monday. The North Dakota Department of Health had reported that a woman in her 80s residing in Eddy County had died with COVID-19. The novel coronavirus had knocked on the door of our rural county all spring and summer, but it hadn’t breached its way into the living room until just a few weeks ago. It wasn’t bad enough that roughly one out every 100 of our r...