Eastern Iowans mourning on COVID-19 Remembrance Day
A luminary lit in honor of a COVID-19 victim in Coralville on Tuesday CORALVILLE, Iowa (KWWL) - A year ago Tuesday, very few Iowans thought they would lose a loved one to COVID-19. "When we first heard about it, we thought it would stay contained and it would just be something we would hear about," Heidi Barkhoff said, who lost her aunt in November. On Tuesday, the United State surpassed 400,000 deaths from the deadly virus; exactly one year after the first confirmed case of the virus in our country. To date, 4,332 people have died in Iowa; Barkhoff's aunt being one of them.
Source: kwwl.com