Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday renewed her call for a national day to honor the lives lost to the coronavirus.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Warren urged Congress to pass a resolution designating the first Monday in March as “COVID-19 Victims Day of Remembrance.”
“More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19, including many family members and loved ones,” she wrote. “We must honor and remember the lives lost. Today, @SenMarkey and I are promoting the first Monday in March as a Day of Remembrance for COVID-19 Victims. Congress should pass this resolution.”
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is renewing her call for a national COVID-19 remembrance day. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Warren and fellow Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey introduced the resolution in August 2021, and it was reintroduced on March 6, 2023.
“This resolution represents our nation’s immense mourning and reminds Congress of our renewed commitment to protecting our communities from the ongoing public health crisis,” Markey said in a statement last year. “It has become a thing,” he said.
There have been more than 100 million coronavirus cases in the United States and more than 1.1 million virus-related deaths.
The resolution states that the pandemic is a threat to “low-income communities and communities of color, individuals with disabilities, individuals who are immunocompromised, and individuals and populations with other risk factors such as physical or mental comorbidities.” It has had a disproportionate impact on individuals living in the environment.” , long-term care facilities and prisons.
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The resolution was referred to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee last year, but no action has been taken since then.
