The Paper: Front Page of Texas Newspaper Features 66,664 Obituaries in Year of Pandemic

**The Paper: Front Page of Texas Newspaper Features 66,664 Obituaries in Year of Pandemic**.

**The Paper** is a local newspaper in Burleson, Texas, a city of about 50,000 people located about 15 miles south of Fort Worth. The paper has been publishing a daily front-page list of COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began in early 2020..

As of January 1, 2023, the newspaper had published 66,664 obituaries of people who died from COVID-19 in Texas. The number is a grim reminder of the devastating toll the pandemic has taken on the state, where more than 100,000 people have died from the virus..

The front page of the newspaper on January 1, 2023, was covered with the names of the 66,664 people who died from COVID-19 in Texas. The names were printed in small black type, and they filled the entire page..

The newspaper’s publisher, Ralph Cooper, said he decided to publish the list of obituaries on the front page to show the human toll of the pandemic..

.