SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) After a full year since the first known COVID-19 death in the United States, people all over America on Monday remembered the friends, neighbors and family members lost to the disease, in what s become a national day of mourning.
Santa Monica is joining more than 100 other cities to proclaim the first Monday of March as COVID Memorial Day in an effort to make it a national holiday.
Some took the time to remember those individuals lost at the city s Rose River Memorial, which features handmade felt roses from all over Southern California dedicated to those that have died from the virus.