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Campus community gathers to remember those who have died from COVID-19

On Wednesday, members of the campus community gathered together at the Angel of Grief to honor those who have died from COVID-19. During the COVID-19 Remembrance Project Installation Ceremony in the Arboretum, participants planted 600 “flowers,” made up of several thousand petals, to mark the more than 600,000 people who have lost their lives to COVID-19 in the United States.

The COVID-19 Remembrance Project in the Arboretum was dedicated at a ceremony on Oct. 6. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead)

The event included music performances by the St. Lawrence String Quartet and remarks by David Entwistle, CEO of Stanford Hospital & Clinics; Paul King, CEO of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health; Lloyd Minor, dean of the School of Medicine; and Provost Persis Drell. It is part of the ongoing We are Stanford: A Festival of Reflection and Renewal, which continues through Oct. 10.