"On March 14, 2020, New York mourned the first known death from COVID-19 in our city. In the two years since, nearly 40,000 lives have been lost across the five boroughs, nearly 70,000 across the state. Today we lift up the lives and memories of those we have lost, and support one another in both the individual pain and the collective trauma that this pandemic has wrought – a trauma that sees recovery stymied by repeated resurgences of the virus.
"We know that we can, and we will, move forward from this moment, but recovery means remembering. Two years ago, we had little concept of the severity of what we would face. Now, we feel the loss of lives and livelihoods in those years; the hope that we can realize to a new normal through vaccination and continued mitigation measures; and the somber resolve to honor the pain, suffering, the ongoing grief in our city by doing all we can, as individuals and in government, to protect one another and prevent future pain."
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