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More than 220,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the United States and their families continue to grieve.
Denise Price, a mental health counselor from Louisville, Kentucky, says that she and several of her family members contracted COVID-19 in August and have since recovered. But her 90-year-old father, Everett “Boone” Pike, unfortunately did not. He passed away in September.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Price about the experience. Price connects with other COVID-19 survivors and family members through a Facebook group.
![Denise Price's father died from COVID-19 last month. (Courtesy of Denise Price)](https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2020/10/20201021_090926-1000x750.jpg)
![Everett "Boone" Pike was a retired police officer in Kentucky. (Courtesy of Denise Price)](https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2020/10/20200915_080020-400x654.jpg)
![Everett "Boone" Pike spent his later years living on a farm. He and his son stand with their tobacco crop. (Courtesy of Denise Price)](https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2020/10/20200915_080234-1000x520.jpg)