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How to help someone struggling with guilt of transmitting COVID

When someone unintentionally kills someone else, it's usually because of a car crash. In 2020, COVID-19 could easily have been the No. 1 cause of such deaths.

In the U.S., over 340,000 people have died of COVID since March. Comparatively, an estimated 28,000 people a year survive a car crash in which at least one person is killed — and not every survivor is considered an accidental killer.

The horror of transmitting the coronavirus to another person isn't as clear-cut as being behind the wheel during an automobile accident. You can't be 100% certain you transmitted the virus that caused another

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