While the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc across our world, numbers and statistics circulate before our eyes in dizzying fervor: number of cases, number of hospitalizations, number of deaths. In the whirlwind numbers, percentages, commas, and zeroes, a California teenager recognized the most important fact: “They're not numbers. They're people who died and they deserve to be remembered.”
For her seventh-grade community action project, 13-year-old