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Share Your Story: Remembering COVID-19 Front-Line Workers

by Meghan Collins Sullivan

Health care workers light candles outside Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on April 10 as they mourn and remember their colleagues who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health care workers light candles outside Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on April 10 as they mourn and remember their colleagues who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Johannes Eisele / AFP via Getty Images

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, many are being touched by the deaths of family and friends.

NPR is planning a project to remember people who have died of the novel coronavirus as they continued to work outside their homes during the pandemic: health care workers; grocery store clerks; city/town services employees; police; domestic workers; mail carriers; caretakers; those who kept serving others as the rest of us have stayed home.

We'd like to hear a story from you about your lost loved one or friend — to share a special memory you have of this person.

If you'd like to join us in this project, please upload a photo and a short story (200 words maximum) about the person relating to one particular moment or memory. We'd like you to upload a sound recording of the person — a voicemail, audio recording or video — that relates to this memory, if possible. We may share your story online or on air.

Please fill out the form below, or you can find it here.

Your submission will be governed by our general Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. As the Privacy Policy says, we want you to be aware that there may be circumstances in which the exemptions provided under law for journalistic activities or freedom of expression may override privacy rights you might otherwise have.

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