Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Medical Intensive Care Unit was in the process of being transformed into a COVID ICU.

On the five year anniversary of COVID being declared a pandemic, health care workers across Connecticut are reminiscing on that day that changed the world as we know it. Health care workers gathered at Minute Man Park in Hartford remembering those lost from the pandemic and reliving the spread of COVID.

It's been five years since WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. FOX31's Kim Posey spoke with a teenager who has been receive treatment for long COVID symptoms at National Jewish Health after he became sick from the coronavirus three times.