(CNN) There's been no communal mourning for the nearly 210,000 victims of coronavirus in the US, no national acknowledgment of the devastation the pandemic has wrought on. To cope, on Sunday, Covid-19 survivors and families of victims placed 20,000 empty chairs on the lawn across from the White House. The display represented less than a tenth of the US death toll from Covid-19. It's one of the few formal public remembrances of coronavirus victims in the US since the pandemic began. Survivors organized a National Covid-19 Remembrance dayThe sea of chairs and remembrance ceremony were organized by Covid Survivors for Change , a group of Covid-19 survivors and families of victims, which declared Sunday a national day of remembrance for those who've died from coronavirus.

Source: CNN October 05, 2020 15:33 UTC