PASSAIC — City firefighters, EMTs and workers at St. Mary's Hospital took part Monday in what some are calling a national COVID Memorial Day.
Not yet official, the first Monday in March would become "COVID-19 Victims and Survivors Memorial Day" under a bill introduced by Rep. Greg Stanton, an Arizona Democrat.
"This week, Americans mourned half a million lives lost to the coronavirus — half a million family members, friends, neighbors and coworkers,” Stanton said in a news release about his bill. “Long after our nation moves beyond this most grim episode, we will need to collectively recognize all those we lost and the aftershocks of what we experienced.”