Cate Dingley
The youngest victims of a national calamity, and the people they left behind
Quincy Drone and Lastassija White outside their home, Amarillo, Texas. The youngest victims of a national calamity, and the people they left behind. February 2021. As the coronavirus death toll in the United States reached 500,000, the Washington Post told the stories of five children who had died from the virus.
Drone and White lost their five-year-old daughter, Tagan Drone, to COVID-19 in October 2020. According to CDC data, three-quarters of children who succumb to coronavirus are children of color.
The Washington Post
