The National Covid Memorial: Honoring Every Life Lost

Recent Coverage

• PBS NewsHour | The COVID pandemic's lingering toll, five years later

  PBS examines how our National Covid Memorial is creating space for collective grief while pushing for lasting recognition of those we've lost.

• The Boston Globe | More than one million Americans have died of Covid. Why are there no national day to remember them?

  This piece highlights our advocacy for a federally recognized Covid Memorial Day and the growing momentum as more than 250 cities and 13 states officially recognize this day of remembrance.

• Boston University School of Public Health | 'Remember Every One': Memorializing the More Than 1 Million Lives Lost to COVID-19 in the US

  An in-depth feature on our Remember Every One initiative showcasing how our memorial is helping communities process grief through remembrance.

• WBUR/NPR Boston | People who lost loved ones to COVID continue pushing for a national day of remembrance

  This moving segment features stories from our community and explores the importance of having an official day to honor those we've lost to Covid.

• WNPR Connecticut | How we remember the COVID-19 pandemic

  WNPR's "Where We Live" explores the power of collective memorialization and the work we're doing to ensure no one is forgotten.

• The Seattle Times | COVID Stole a Parent from Over 200,000 Children. Indian Country Lost the Most

  This powerful piece highlights Covid's impact on Native communities and connects to our HOPE Accounts work providing financial foundations for children who lost parents to Covid.

• KYMA Yuma | Advocates push to honor 1.2 million lives lost to COVID-19

  Coverage of our memorial tour in Arizona, highlighting how our AR memorial experience is bringing remembrance to communities across the country.

• ABC15 Arizona | 5 years ago, the WHO declared COVID a pandemic

  Marking the anniversary of the pandemic declaration, this report features our work to ensure those lost are remembered not as statistics, but as individuals with names and stories.

• Fi Lowenstein Substack | Five years later, reckoning with denial

  A thoughtful reflection examining the ongoing struggle for recognition and justice that drives our mission to memorialize those lost to Covid.

For media inquiries, please contact Christine Keeves, MPH.