Coronavirus survivors are gathering online Sunday to honor the more than 207,000 U.S. lives lost in the pandemic and call for a national strategy to halt its relentless march.
Several of the 20,000 flags representing the 200,000 lives lost in the United States in the coronavirus disease pandemic are placed on the National Mall in Washington, U.S., September 22, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/Files
Billed as the first national memorial service, it will be livestreamed from Washington, DC just days after President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump announced that they are among the more than 7 million reported cases in the United States. The couple’s infections came after months of criticism that Trump has politicized the U.S. COVID-19 response by undermining public health experts and proven interventions like mask wearing. The U.S.
“The idea that I couldn’t show up for him is the one thing that is going to haunt me forever,” said Khan, who started a COVID-19 bereavement group on Facebook and now is mobilizing other survivors so “our loved ones didn’t die in vain.” “I don’t think we’ve paused enough to measure the magnitude of the problem,” said Del Rosario Palacios, who cares for her mother - a formerly fit 57-year-old poultry plant worker who suffered a stroke during her COVID-19 battle. She wants lawmakers to speed up essential workers’ access to short-term disability benefits.
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