High school football coach is among the 800,000 U.S. pandemic deaths

NPR

Published December 15, 2021 at 5:06 AM EST

High school football coach Charles Peterson of Columbia, S.C., is remembered as someone who looked out for others. He died of COVID-19 on Sept. 13 at the age of 46.

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