‘The loss is omnipresent’: the grieving daughter fighting for a US Covid memorial day

The founder of Marked by Covid believes the US has failed to properly memorialize the enormous losses

For Kristin Urquiza, there are two dimensions: before Covid, and with it. It's as if the arrow of time veered off into an entirely new direction, to a world where nearly one million of our loved ones have vanished and millions more are struggling with the long-term effects of a mysterious illness.

It feels like my father disappeared," Urquiza said. Her father died on 30 June 2020, at the age of 65, in an Arizona hospital with only an ICU nurse holding his hand. That shadow, or that loss, is omnipresent."