COVID19Memorial

09 MARCH 2021 - DES MOINES, IOWA: People carry flowers to a flower filled coffin during a memorial service for the 5,574 Iowans killed by COVID-19 in the one year since the pandemic started. Each flower represented an Iowan killed in the pandemic. About 75 people attended the service. The first three cases of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), all Iowans who had traveled to Egypt on a cruise, were reported to the Iowa Department of Public Health on March 8, 2020. The first fatality in Iowa was reported on March 25, 2020. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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09 MARCH 2021 - DES MOINES, IOWA: People carry flowers to a flower filled coffin during a memorial service for the 5,574 Iowans killed by COVID-19 in the one year since the pandemic started. Each flower represented an Iowan killed in the pandemic. About 75 people attended the service. The first three cases of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), all Iowans who had traveled to Egypt on a cruise, were reported to the Iowa Department of Public Health on March 8, 2020. The first fatality in Iowa was reported on March 25, 2020. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ