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Row after row. Acre after acre. Hundreds of thousands of flags beneath the watchful eye of the Washington Monument are in honor of the Americans lost their lives to COVID-19. The 670,000 flags each represent a mother, a son, a friend, a neighbor. Erin Hathaway and her husband traveled from upstate New York to be at the National Mall and…

With the Delta variant of COVID-19 continuing to rage, Los Angeles County crossed the grim milestone of 25,000 virus deaths since the pandemic began, with the public health director lamenting that vaccinations makes virtually all COVID fatalities preventable.

An eighth Los Angeles Police Department officer has died from complications due to COVID-19, the department announced Monday.

When California fully reopens on Tuesday, it will be a watershed event that underscores how far the state has come since the start of the year when the coronavirus was at its deadliest

As India struggles to keep up with record-breaking daily coronavirus cases, one man has taken it upon himself to disinfect neighborhoods in Mumbai dressed as a clown.

Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives because of COVID-19. That meant many people were left planning funerals. Funerals are not cheap, so many people were left with a bill for thousands of dollars. FEMA’s new program hopes to help people in that situation.

Air Force veteran Diane Drewes spent months hoping to receive a COVID-19 immunization. But her daughter says the call offering an appointment came only when Drewes was dying of the illness. Drewes is among an unknown number of people who wanted a vaccine but died before they could get it. More than 245,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the coronavirus was the third leading cause of death in the United States last year.

A Mexican immigrant died after suffering health complications after contracting COVID-19 at the Adelanto detention center, according to his lawyers.

In July 2020, Ra Friedman started an art project to honor those who died from COVID-19. Now, the art project has expanded to include over one hundred portraits, and counting.

Abigail Breslin of “Zombieland” and “Scream Queens” fame is mourning the death of her father, Michael Breslin, following his death from COVID-19.

Family members told officers the man and woman were quarantining in their home in the St. Louis area.

The United States has reached the grim milestone of 500,000 deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to NBC News.

Three siblings lost their parents to COVID-19 within hours of each other. NBC 7’s Melissa Adan has their story.

The Rodriguez family is grieving the loss of both of their parents who died within hours of each other due to COVID-19. The difficult loss comes after seven people in the family tested positive for the coronavirus. “My mom and my dad’s love was epic and so was their death,” said daughter Blanca Velazquez. Blanca Estela and Juan Manuel...

More Americans are making the decision to have their terminally ill loved ones die at home rather than in nursing home and hospice settings.

As vaccine demands continue to outstrip supply countrywide, the United States is expecting to see over half a million COVID-19 deaths within the next three weeks. Just over one million people are getting vaccinated a day, according to the CDC.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced Friday its Catholic Cemeteries and Mortuaries started offering contactless burial options due to state and local public health restrictions and high demand for funeral services.

NBC 7’s Steven Luke shares what you need to know in San Diego County on the morning of December 28, 2020.

According to NBC News’ tally, December has already been the worst month of the pandemic, both in terms of overall case load and death toll.