You may have noticed flags flying at half-staff today and paused to wonder why.
Normally, flags fly at half-staff because a notable individual has died, but that isn’t the case this week. This week flags are flying at half-staff to honor hundreds of thousands of people whose names are not widely known.
The United States passed a grim milestone this week in coronavirus deaths. Since the pandemic began last year, 500,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.
Flags will fly at half-staff until Feb. 26 to honor the 500,000 people in the United States who have died due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Of those 500,000 deaths, 14,689 were from Georgia with an additional 2,146 deaths in Georgia that were likely caused by COVID-19, but not confirmed. As of Monday, Georgia is averaging about 96 coronavirus deaths per day.
