A Detroit Free Press columnist argued that COVID-19 has turned “breathing into a deadly event” and made “all of us potential serial killers.”

“As coronavirus burns an exponential path of destruction across the American terrain, an insidious blanket of shadow damage is quietly unfurling in its name,” wrote Michael J. Stern Tuesday. “It’s not just the death and scarred lungs. COVID-19 has turned every man, woman and child into a potential serial killer.”