Corona Chronicles 2020-21

1 Interviews/March 29 Cover photo: "Backyard perspective" by Christine By: Christine Zhao Zhao

A global pandemic in

200 pictures.

COR ONA CHR ONI CLES QUEST 2020-21

2 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21 "Backyard perspective" by Christine Zhao

This is the view from my backyard. Facing these houses every day, it fails to occur to me that inside every house are people going about their own individual lives. This backyard perspective is just like my view of the world. Whole, but incomplete. In this zine, I strive to understand the world around me in a deeper way. Zooming into corners of the world.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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ho would've guessed that a virus smaller than a speck of dust from the outskirts of Wuhan, China would take the world by storm in just a few months? Its silent arrival pulled the rug out from under our feet. One death turned into 4,319,153. Two weeks of school off turned into an indefinite stretch of remote learning. A misstep turned into a global catastrophe.

After a year of staying in the confinement of the same four walls, my world consisted of only a small screen (my phone), a medium screen (my computer), and a big screen (my tv). Sheltered in the name of the "shelter-in-place" mandate, I lost perspective; my concerns were frittered among trivial daily tasks. The numbers in the news were nothing other than just—numbers. But I knew there were more stories to hear, more heights to reach (other than the one seen from my backyard), more world to see.

That's why I created this zine.

Dedicated to the countless doctors, grocery workers, teachers, funeral workers, mailmen, activists, and everyone who I've missed (including ordinary people like you and me), this zine captures the essence of the 1.5-year-long pandemic. You will see the small things—mask imprints, coronavirus-shaped helmets, PPE fashion shows, animals roaming the streets—but also the big things—the racial awakening in the face of injustice, political turmoil in the 2020 election, and victory of vaccines— documented in this 200-page zine.

I scoured the web for 200 of the most touching photos and compiled them in these pages. Special thanks to the courageous journalists and photographers behind each and every photo, risking their lives to capture these momentuous shots in the crossfires of history. They are our heroes too. Full rights go to the photographers and/ or publishers of each photo.

Flip through these pages and you will embark on a roller coaster of devastation, anger, shock, joy, and gratitude. In these 200 photos roughly ordered chronologically, you will see the emergence of a beautiful humanity under catastrophe. In some strange, paradoxical way, even though we are divided by the six-feet-distances and mask fabrics, the coronavirus united us. Underneath the big matters of politics, war, and death is the thread of human emotion, especially love, that strings us together.

Enjoy. This is the Corona Chronicles.

— Christine Zhao, Founder and Editor of Corona Chronicles

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An image that captures the chilling reality of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China in late 2019: a grey-haired man wearing a face mask lies dead on the pavement, a plastic shopping bag in one hand, as police and medical staff in full protective suits and masks prepare to take him away. "These days, many have died," says a bystander, "It’s terrible." (Héctor Retamal/AFP via Getty Images/The Guardian)

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This is Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, the panick-built hospital completed in just 10 days to help cope with the outbreak in the central city of Wuhan. Online footage by CGTN shows workers saying: "We have been working here for nine days. We have only slept for two hours in three days."

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But many still appeared happy to lend their help. Another worker said: "When disaster strikes help comes from all sides. I am a Wuhan resident. It is my duty to protect my hometown." (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images/ NYT/Business Insider)

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Lyu Jun, left, a member of a medical team leaving for Wuhan, says goodbye to a loved one in Urumqi, China, on January 28, 2020 (Wang Fei/Xinhua/Sipa USA/CNN)

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A doctor is disinfected by a colleague Feb. 3 at a quarantine zone in Wuhan, China. (AFP/ Getty Images/LA Times)

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Yuan Tianxiong, a concrete provider for the Huoshenshan hospital, is checked for temperature on site. Although he broke his arm, he still insisted on his work in order to complete the construction task.

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People in Hong Kong attend a vigil for whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang. Li, 34, died in Wuhan after contracting the virus while treating a patient.

(Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images/ CNN)

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Dogs wear masks at a shopping area in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, February 16. The deadly novel coronavirus is spreading through Asia and across the world. (Aly Song/Reuters/CNN)

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A Beijing dog wears a paper cup mask over its mouth. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images/KQED)

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Children wear plastic bottles as makeshift masks while waiting to check in to a flight at the Beijing Capital Airport on January 30, 2020. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images/CNN)

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A boy wears a cardboard box on his head at the Shanghai railway station on February 13, 2020. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty/The Atlantic)

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On Valentine's Day, in an isolation ward in Yangzhou Third People's Hospital, two doctors make a heart gesture through glass in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province (Costfoto/Barcroft Media/Getty Images)

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Many families have struggled to arrange hospital treatment for their relatives, including this woman whose daughter was filmed banging a gong on her balcony shouting for help. (Weibo/South China Morning Post)

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A nurse in a protective suit attends to a baby with COVID-19 at an isolation ward at Wuhan Children's Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, China March 16, 2020. (China Daily/Reuters)

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Derek DeVault, left, and his colleagues wearing photos of themselves to show patients their faces. (@derekdevault/Instagram)

Doctors look at a CT scan of a lung at a hospital in Xiaogan, China. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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Workers check sterile medical gloves at a latex-product manufacturer in Nanjing, China. (Ji Chunpeng/Xinhua News Agency/ Getty Images)

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Nurse Cao Shan shows marks of a mask on her face after working in the isolation ward in Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan on February 17, 2020. (Feature China/ Barcroft Media via Getty/ The Atlantic)

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Doctors are reusing PPE amidst national shortage.

(Alex Welsh/NYT/Redux)

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A child tosses a surgical mask into a fire during a maskburning event at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise on March 6. People gathered in at least 20 cities across the state to protest Covid-19 restrictions. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

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The outbreak in the Seattle area marked the known American arrival of the virus and showed how deadly the disease would become for the elderly. Life Care Center of Kirkland WA, where resident Judie Shape can be seen speaking on the phone with her daughter, Lori Spencer—who had to stay outside because of quarantine protocols—would eventually be linked to more than three dozen deaths. That, though, would turn out to be just a sliver of the more than 170,000 deaths related to nursing homes that have been reported through the course of the pandemic. (David Ryder/ Reuters/Time)

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Artist B. Gowtham created the coronavirus helmet, which was then used by police inspector Rajesh Babu in Chennai, India. Dressed as the coronavirus, he would say: "If you come out, I will come in." (Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images/CNN)

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Police inspector Rajesh Babu wearing a coronavirus-themed outfit walks in a market in Chennai, India, to raise awareness about social distancing.(Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images)

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Relatives cry during the burial of Tereza Santos, who died from Covid-19, at Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 9. (Carla Carniel/ Reuters)

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Shelves at the Target department store in Wadsworth, Ohio, were emptied of toilet paper and sanitizer a day after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine put in place a stayat-home order.

(Dustin Franz/The Washington Post)

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Hundreds of people line up to enter a Costco in Novato, California, on March 14, 2020. Many people were stocking up on food, toilet paper and other items.

As a response to panic buying, retailers in the United States and Canada started limiting the number of toilet paper that customers could buy in one trip. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/CNN)

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3.13.20 A teacher works in an empty classroom at the Pompeu Fabra university in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, March 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti/CNN)

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The tip came from a friend: as classes at the Canterbury School in Greensboro, N.C., moved online, educators were bagging up students’ belongings while the facility was cleaned and sanitized. “I knew it would make a photo,” says Khadejeh Nikouyeh. “I called the school and they welcomed me in.” There, she found teacher and administrator Kelen Walker packing the contents of students’ lockers into trash bags. “Looking back at this image and a few others I’ve made during the pandemic, I realize for the first time in my career that I was actually documenting history, not just daily news,” Nikouyeh says. (Khadejeh Nikouyeh/News & Record/AP/Time)

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When Victor Llorente arrived at the New York Stock Exchange to photograph a new deep-clean regimen instituted due to the pandemic, he was provided with a gas mask and goggles to wear while biohazard disinfectant was sprayed on all surfaces inside. “I wanted the viewer to feel the surreal atmosphere that I felt while I was there,” says Llorente, who worked into the night. He arrived when there were still brokers yelling on the floor, and left around 3 a.m. “This is probably the last memory I have of a room filled with people before the world changed to what it is now,” Llorente says. “It’s crazy to think how they were just cleaning the floor with plans to reopen the following week. It really shows how we misunderstood the severity of the situation.” (Victor Llorente/The New York Times/Redux)

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Brazil's Christ the Redeemer statue was illuminated to look like a doctor on Easter Sunday, in a tribute to front-line healthcare workers battling the coronavirus pandemic around the world. 4/13

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3.15.20 People wear face masks and observe social distancing as they attend a Good Friday church service in Berlin on April 2. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Pope Francis makes a blessing over an empty St Peter’s square at the Vatican.

(Getty)

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A growing number of countries have started to close their borders due to coronavirus, leading to airport closures and flight cancellations. (Lim Huey Teng/Reuters/The Guardian)

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'Have To Wear Sanitary Pad With Diaper': Women Doctors Donning PPE Kits While Treating COVID Patients.

(Punjab Kesari/The Logical Indian)

A health worker sings for a Covid-19 patient as part of Easter celebrations at a hospital in Belem, Brazil, on April 4.

(Tarso Sarraf/AFP/ Getty Images)

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Health professionals are using social media to share the best weapon we have to fight COVID-19. Dr. Sandy Simons, an emergency medicine physician based in Virginia, took to Twitter with a picture of herself holding up the handwritten message. (Twitter)

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Ballet dancer and performer Ashlee Montague wears a gas mask while she dances in Times Square as the coronavirus outbreak continues in Manhattan, New York City, March 18, 2020. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)

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Lydia Hassebroek takes online ballet lessons from her home in New York on Wednesday, March 25. Millions of people across the world are staying at home and distancing themselves from others to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters)

"For the 2-year-old, my biggest hurdle is keeping him from grabbing the iPad or banging on the keys on my computer. But when he hears a song he recognizes, he is transfixed. He is singing along, doing all the motions, and smiling the biggest smile of the day," Eisenberg says. (Daryl Eisenberg/Business Insider)

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Preschool Zoom call. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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Dana Baer and her son Jacob Baer wish Avery Slutsky a happy sixth birthday from their car during a drive-by birthday celebration as they maintain social distance amid a coronavirus outbreak across the country in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, March 24, 2020. (Reuters/Emily Elconin)

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Tercio Galdino and his wife, Alicea, wear astronaut costumes to protect themselves from Covid-19 as they walk along the Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro on March 20. (Bruna Prado/AP)

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Novice Buddhist monks wear face shields at the Molilokayaram Educational Institute in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 15, 2020. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP)

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Chris Lyndberg hands out a free lunch to a truck driver at a rest area along Interstate 10 in Sacaton, Arizona. The Arizona Trucking Association was giving away 500 Dilly's Deli lunches to show its appreciation for truck drivers who have been delivering medical supplies, food and other necessities during the coronavirus pandemic.

(Matt York/AP)

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It became a ritual. As winter turned to spring, President Trump and his task force would hold a nightly briefing for Americans on the status of the pandemic and the government’s response. For the Washington, D.C., press corps, that meant working in the same room in the White House, under the same limitations, with many of the same people, day after day. “It was a time for a photographer to be creative,” says Tom Brenner. On the last day of March, Brenner lucked out with a front-row position and was able to capture the arrival of the President and the team tasked with combating the virus. Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, were at odds—as they would be throughout the year—over facts, the best course of action and the messaging of that response. “You can see the diminished relationship, the tension,” Brenner says. “He was just waiting for him to come out.” (Tom Brenner/Reuters/Time)

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The hashtag "stayhome" is projected onto the Matterhorn mountain that straddles Switzerland and Italy on April 1, 2020. The mountain was illuminated by Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter, who was transforming buildings, monuments and landscapes all over the world to raise awareness during the pandemic. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

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A coyote in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

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Peacocks in an empty street in Ronda, Spain. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP)

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Mountain goats roam the streets of LLandudno, Wales, on March 31, 2020. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Lions sleep across an empty road in Kruger National Park, South Africa, on April 15.

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A nurse adjusts tiny face shield for a newborn baby to protect from new coronavirus at the newborn nursery of the hospital in Samutprakarn province, central Thailand. (Paolo Hospital Samutprakarn via AP)

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Precious Anderson, a Covid-19 patient, was shown her newborn baby for the first time with the help of Dr. Erroll Byer Jr. and a live video feed at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times) In this Friday, April 3, 2020, photo released by Paolo Hospital Samutprakarn, a nurse adjusts tiny face shield for a newborn baby to protect from new coronavirus at the newborn nursery of the hospital in Samutprakarn province, central Thailand. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

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Californians Sarah and Aaron Sanders, along with their children, use video conferencing to celebrate a Passover Seder with other family members.

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Designer Friederike Jorzig adjusts a mannequin wearing a wedding dress and a face mask at her store in Berlin.

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A cake shop employee in Athens, Greece, prepares chocolate Easter bunnies with face masks on April 8, 2020. (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

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A woman sticks her tongue out of a torn mask at a Reopen Maryland rally outside the State House in Annapolis, Maryland. (Saul Loeb/ AFP/Getty Images)

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A man walks by murals along Houston Street in Manhattan, New York.

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A health-care worker stands in a Denver street to counterprotest the hundreds of people who were demanding that stay-at-home orders be lifted.(Alyson McClaran/ Reuters)

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Tod Seelie was in Las Vegas to photograph the shutdown of the Strip when he heard that a homeless shelter had apparently closed temporarily due to a positive COVID-19 case. Guests were moved to a parking lot. “Not far from this location were literally rows of empty hotel rooms that could have been used to temporarily house these people,” he says. “It would have required funding and effort, but I don’t think it would have been outside the ability of a city like Las Vegas to pull together. We as a society make decisions around our priorities, and I think this image lays clear what some of those priorities were during this pandemic.” When others see this photograph, he adds, “I hope people see a situation and realize it was avoidable.” (Tod Seelie/The Guardian)

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A worker of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust takes a sample test to a homeless for coronavirus disease in Downtown Miami on April 16th, 2020. (Eva Marie Uzcategui)

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Health workers wearing protective face masks react during a tribute for their co-worker Esteban, a male nurse that died of the coronavirus disease, amid the outbreak, outside the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, Spain. (Reuters/Susana Vera)

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Romelia Navarro is comforted by Michele Younkin, a nurse, while sitting at the bedside of her dying husband.

(Jae C. Hong/AP)

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As cars lined up at the Utah Food Bank’s mobile food pantry at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, outside Salt Lake City, volunteers told Rick Bowmer it was the first time they had seen that many people seeking this sort of assistance.

“It was a time of uncertainty,” the photographer says. “People were dying or losing their jobs and businesses were being closed.” Bowmer focused on the sheer scale of the demand and putting it into perspective as the national death toll climbed. “We’ve all seen the pictures from the Great Depression,” he says, “and here it is during our lifetime.” (Rick Bowmer/AP)

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Emma, 7 years old, virtually hugs her classroom Interviews/March 29 in front of a computer during distance learningZhao By: Christine class at home due to COVID-19 quarentine in Miami, Florida. (Eva Marie Uzcategui)

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According to the PR Times website, the Business Breakthrough University (BBT University) held a graduation ceremony on Mar. 28 at Hotel Grand Palace at Chiyoda, Tokyo. (BBT University's website)

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Natalie D'Ambrosio and her dog, Belle, pop out of the sunroof as she celebrates her decision to go to Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on senior Decision Day at Barrington High School on May 1, 2020. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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A reduced and distanced Berlin Philharmonic performed in an empty hall on May 1. (Monika Rittershaus/New York Times)

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11.11.20 Alison Gauvreau wears an instrumental mask as she plays the flute during band practice at Lawrence University. Students were spread out in the room to practice safe social distancing. (Dan Powers/USA Today Network)

Marcel Penzes wears a custom-designed mask during rehearsal at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. (Chris Bergin for KHN)

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Jia, 29, and his wife Su, 28, posing with face masks and marriage certificates at a marriage registry office on Valentine's Day in Shanghai. The couple decided to be on the safe side due to the Covid-19 outbreak but went on with their plans of registering their marriage on Valentine's Day. (Reuters)

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“Rescheduling or canceling a wedding feels like a trivial matter in the context of a global pandemic,” says photographer Maggie Shannon, “but it does have a personal impact on these individuals. I wanted to lift them up.”

As spring wore on, she contacted wedding planners in the Los Angeles area to see if they would connect her with couples who had decided to cancel or postpone their weddings. That’s how she met Judi and Eric, the couple in the center of this photograph. The couple had initially postponed their wedding until 2021, but Judi was concerned her elderly father, who was undergoing treatment for a health ailment, would not be able to attend their new date, and she wanted him to walk her down the aisle. So, instead, they planned a small ceremony in May, which would ensure Judi’s father would make it. “A neighbor decorated their driveway with rose petals and another served as their officiant,” Shannon recalls. The bride had sewn a mask to match her dress. “These tiny moments of joy are easily forgotten when there is so much suffering.” (Maggie Shannon)

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Lidia Herrera says her final goodbye to her brother Miguel, 63, on May 4 after he was disconnected from life support. “I can’t let him die alone,” she said before entering the room, wearing protective gear provided by the photographer. “I understand the risk, but I am going to take it.” In the room, Lidia tearfully crossed him with their late mother’s white beaded rosary and stroked his head until his heart stopped beating. (Meridith Kohut/New York Times)

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Intensive care nurses work on a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles County, California.

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A medical worker monitors a coronavirus patient inside an ambulance in Rome on March 16, 2020. (Gemelli Policlinico/ Reuters)

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These Are the Bedside Concerts Comforting Virus Patients. An I.C.U. doctor Rachel Easterwood felt despair at how little could be done for the sick. Soon, she had musicians playing over the phone in hospital rooms. (New York Times)

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Francisco James, a resident funeral director at Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home in Queens, is shown here in an used to apply makeup to the deceased before viewings and burials. Every available space in the building, and a refrigerated container behind it, was used to store bodies. “I remember walking in one Friday and my boss said, ‘you’re not going to believe this, but we had about 300 first calls last night,'" says James. "A ‘first call’ is when the family notifies the funeral home that a loved one has passed away. My eyes just exploded because I

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wasn’t sure what to expect.” For about three months, James says, it was nonstop. “I was working six days a week, Interviews/March 29 14-hour shifts, to accommodate all the families and the bodies. We were picking up an average of 14-15 bodiesZhao By: Christine per day.” His main concern was bringing the virus home to his family. “We were just so exposed to it,” he says.

“My boss told me what I did in that three months is the amount of work we would have done in three years.”

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Mary Faye Cochran, 86, sings "You Are My Sunshine" over the phone to her son Stacey Smith through a window for Mother's Day celebration at Provident Village at Creekside senior living, in Smyrna, Georgia. (AP/Brynn Anderson)

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When Jacqueline Venner, a beloved union representative at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, died of COVID-19 in April, her family had to wait more than two weeks for a brief, two-hour time slot at a Queens funeral home in order to hold her funeral. It was still early on in the pandemic, before much of the public knew how the virus spread. The exercise of mourning was changing in real-time. At that point, it meant fewer people could attend—capacity at Venner’s service was limited to 10 people, including photographer Meridith Kohut— and less time to grieve together. A sign posted on the door discouraged mourners from touching one another.

When Erica Davis reached back to hold the hand of co-worker Marsha Williams, a patient-care coordinator at Wyckoff ’s women’s health center, “it really struck me,” Kohut says. “It was so symbolic of this past year and how we’ve all been struggling, often in isolation, as well as the ways we’ve all tried to comfort each other, albeit from a distance.” (Meridith Kohut/TIME)

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Brightly painted rocks with messages inscribed on them in response to the pandemic were left on top of the guardrails at a virtually empty Brant Rock Beach in Marshfield. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

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Priscila, drinks gin and tonic and applies a beauty mask in her bathroom. Self-care and relaxation is as important as ever. Brasilia, Brazil. (Gustavo Minas/NPR)

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A man and a woman demonstrate dining under a plastic shield in a restaurant of Paris. As restaurants in food-loving France prepare to reopen, some are investing in lampshade-like plastic shields to protect diners from the virus. The strange-looking contraptions are among experiments restaurants are trying around the world as they try to lure back clientele while keeping them virus-free. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Staff at the Mediamatic restaurant serve food to volunteers seated in small glasshouses during a try-out of a setup which respects social distancing abiding by government directives to combat the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Restaurants around the world try to lure back clientele while keeping them virus-free. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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"Necessity is the Mother of Invention:" Maryland bar unveils social distancing tubes for drinkers. (Independent)

Lance Wright made a large six-foot diameter circular barrier to educate people on what social distancing means during a drive to collect personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical supplies to address the shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic in front Empower Field at Mile High on March 22, 2020 in Denver. (Denver Post)

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Kendrick Brinson has been photographing the denizens of Sun City, Ariz., for more than a decade. During a trip to the area's active retirement community, she caught up with the Sun City Poms, a squad of cheerleaders in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Instead of their standard practices and performances, which were off-limits, Brinson was shown something else: in one member’s backyard, they hula hooped while remaining socially distant. “I was happy that these women had found a way to adapt and to do what they loved together again during such a stressful time,” Brinson says. “It reminded me how important community is for mental health.” (Kendrick Brinson/Time)

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It was a surprise. A few days earlier, Mary Grace Sileo’s son invited his parents over for Memorial Day Weekend. They hadn’t had physical contact since the lockdown began. Shortly after Sileo and her husband arrived from Staten Island to Wantagh, N.Y., they were ushered to the backyard, where a plastic drop cloth was hung from a clothesline. “Go ahead,” her son encouraged. “Hug the kids.” It went on for a while. Everyone took turns. Sileo noticed Al Bello taking pictures, “but I was just caught up in the hugging.” At one point, she was photographed hugging her granddaughter, Olivia Grant, seen here. As the pandemic raged on, similar scenes would play out around the world. The family hasn’t recreated it since then, Sileo says. “It was a wonderful day. Just wonderful. These hugs, they were so therapeutic. Water on a dry plant.” (Al Bello/Getty Images)

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97 Interviews/March May 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

This aerial photo shows gravediggers working at the Vila Formosa Cemetery, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 22, 2020.

The coronavirus was surging in Brazil, the hardest-hit country in Latin America. (Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images)

98 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

A member of the Don Bosco Foundation delivers food from the Fraternitas Project, which serves vulnerable families in Seville, Spain. (María José López/ Europa Press via Getty Images)

5.27.20

Shaandiin P. Parrish, Miss Navajo Nation, helps distribute food and other supplies to Navajo families in Counselor, New Mexico. Navajo Nation has been hit hard by the coronavirus. (Sharon Chischilly/ Getty Images)

99 Interviews/March May 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

4.16.20 2.11.20 A community worker sorts donated vegetables for members of households inside a residential compound, following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, on February 11, 2020. (China Daily/Reuters/The Atlantic)

100 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

5.5.20

People in protective suits cremate the bodies of Covid-19 victims while others work to extend a crematorium in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 5. Covid-19 cases are skyrocketing in Nepal, resembling a similar outbreak in neighboring India. (Niranjan Shrestha/AP)

101 Interviews/March May-June 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

Exhausted grave diggers rest between funerals at a cemetery designated for Covid-19 victims in Bandung, Indonesia, on Tuesday, June 15. (Timur Matahari/AFP/Getty Images)

6.15.20

102

6.10.20

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A woman passes by a graffiti with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and a person depicting the coronavirus pulling a rope against health workers in Sao Paulo, June 10. The graffiti reads: "Which side are you?" (Reuters/ Amanda Perobelli)

Local artist Ponywave captures love in the time of the coronavirus. Also titled “Stay Safe,” the mural shows two people kissing while wearing masks; one has her eyes open, almost like she’s waiting for her partner to acknowledge the situation. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

103 Interviews/March May-June 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

3.25.20

A man runs in front of a graffiti of a character from “Lord Of The Rings”, which holds a roll of toilet paper and says “My precious”, during coronavirus outbreak in the Mauerpark in Berlin, Germany on March 25, 2020.

(Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

3.24.20

104 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

105 Interviews/March May-June 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

Preschool students wait to wash their hands before class in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on May 25, 2020. The country became one of the first in West Africa to restart lessons after a two-month coronavirus shutdown.

(Legnan Koula/EPA-EFE/ Shutterstock)

5.25.20

106 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Cardboard cutouts of soccer fans are seen at the Borussia-Park stadium in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The Bundesliga, Germany's top pro soccer league, became the first major European competition to return amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images)

5.16.20

107 Interviews/March May-June 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

7.24.20

Cardboard cutouts of fans are seen in Globe Life Field during a Major League Baseball game in Arlington, Texas, on July 24. The league has resumed for a 60-game abbreviated season, but fans are not allowed to attend. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

108

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109 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

A woman is sprayed with disinfectant before entering a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 9, 2020. (Dita Alangkara/AP)

110 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

7.8.20

For Food Delivery, Covid-19 Was a Sugar High: Around 70% of last year’s U.S. food delivery growth was ‘purely due to the pandemic,’ a study found. (John Minchillo/AP)

4.30.20

111 Interviews/March June 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

You’ll be ordering food with QR code menus long after the pandemic ends.

(Victoria Jones/PA Images/Getty Images)

112 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

113 Interviews/March June 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

Funny signs around town. (Bored Panda)

114 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

A firefighter in Chennai, India, sprays disinfectant to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (Arun Sankar/ AFP/Getty Images)

115

6.11.20

Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

116 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

6.14.20

A protester holds a large Black Power fist in the middle of a crowd gathered in New York on June 14. (CNN)

117 Interviews/March June 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

As spring turned to summer, America’s streets swelled with protesters uniting against systemic racism. On the steps of the city’s iconic art museum, a group of protesters laid on the ground for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the initially reported amount of time that a white police officer fatally pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck about a week and a half earlier in Minneapolis. “You could feel the weight of the moment and the silence made you painfully aware of how long that time on the ground really was,” Scott recalls. “Some people were moved to tears as they got back to their feet. Looking at the image now, I feel a deep sense of solidarity with the people. I see the act as a form of radical empathy.” Public-health experts feared the gatherings would significantly spread COVID-19. Scott worried, too, but saw protesters were “disciplined and adamant about mask-wearing.” The anticipated viral surges never materialized. (Isaac Scott/Time)

6.4.20

118 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Teachers try to prevent the hug between Wendy Otin, 6, and Oumou Salam Niang, 6, as they meet during the first day of school after the lockdown, at a primary school in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 8, 2020.

(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

119

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120 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Agustina Cañamero and Pascual Pérez kiss each other through a plastic screen at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, on June 22. They've been married for 59 years.

(Emilio Morenatti/AP)

6.22.20

121 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

122 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

6.25.20

Thousands crowd British beaches amid a summer heatwave, ignoring social distancing and risking COVID-19 exposure. (Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

123 Interviews/March June 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

6.15.20

A cyclist takes pictures of a public art project set up on the DC Armory Parade Ground in Washington, DC. An estimated 240,000 flags were planted to represent lives lost to Covid-19. The display, created by local artist Susanne Brennan Firstenberg, was on display for two weeks. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

124 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

7.14.20

125

Interviews/March July 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

Health workers screen people for COVID-19 symptoms at a slum in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Several Indian states imposed weekend curfews and locked down high-risk areas as the number of coronavirus cases surged past 900,000 on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

126 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

7.20.20

Plastic shields surround the desk where 6-year-old Aven Mullins works inside Wesley Elementary in Middletown, Conn., as the school district instituted a pilot program that would safely bring kids back to classrooms—and their parents back to work—with an eye toward the fall. In the weeks after this photograph, Aven went back to a hybrid learning model: two days a week in person and three days with virtual lessons, says her mother Anna Terry, an educator at a nearby high school. Terry’s 69-year-old mother “stepped up” to help on the days when Aven and her sister were learning at home, she says. “I would have had to leave my job if not for her.” Aven has done “remarkably well” and “her teacher has done an amazing job with keeping her engaged and encouraging her to do her best,” Terry says. But, she misses her friends. In mid-March, Aven and her sister will go back to in-person classes full-time, and get to spend time with friends they have not seen since last year.

(Gillian Laub for TIME)

127 Interviews/March July 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

First-grader Sophia Frazier does her schoolwork behind a plastic divider at Two Rivers Elementary School in Sacramento, California, on March 8. (Daniel Kim/Sacramento Bee/ZUMA Wire)

3.8.20

128 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

People watch the film "The Prestige" from a gondola boat in Venice, Italy, on July 28. Around the world, many films are being shown outside so that people can practice social distancing.

(Marco Sabadin/AFP/Getty Images)

129 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

7.28.20

130

7.28.20

Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

131 Interviews/March July 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

Medical workers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, showcase designs during a fashion show of personal protective equipment on August 1. The fashion show was held as a form of gratitude for all medical personnel who have been fighting Covid-19.

(Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

132 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Hairdresser Abed Khankan cuts the hair of a customer outdoors as a precaution amid the novel coronavirus pandemic on April 17, 2020 in Malmo, Sweden. (Johan Milsson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty images)

4.17.20

133 Interviews/March August 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

A stylist from Grey Matter LA cuts a young client’s hair on a roof top parking lot amid the novel coronavirus pandemic Aug. 4 in Los Angeles. (Valerie Macon/AFP-Getty)

8.4.20

134 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

DJ Craig Harrison plays to festivalgoers attending the Gisburne Park Pop-Up, the first socially-distanced outdoor festival in the UK. (OLI SCARFF/ AFP via Getty Images)

7.11-

-8.31.20

135 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

136 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

137 Interviews/March August 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

On Tuesday, August 11, the happy couple were joined in matrimony at a socially distanced wedding attended by immediate family and the hospital workers who had helped care for Muniz over the last month. Sweet wedding instrumentals played while nurses wheeled the grinning groom down a corridor in his hospital bed to await his beautiful bride.

8.11.20

138 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

In Chicago’s Cook County Jail, photographer Dave Kasnic was shown how the pandemic was affecting the facility and those incarcerated there. During the tour of the jail—which experienced one of the largest clusters of confirmed cases in the spring—Kasnic asked his minders if he could photograph a man leaning against the door, peering out. They agreed, as long as his identity was obscured. Kasnic thought to himself, “so how do I photograph this individual with dignity?” He told the man he was with Chicago magazine and the theme of the story. People yelled “show how they’re treating us in here” and “photograph me” as Kasnic made this portrait. “This individual represented so much more than just himself in that situation,” he says. “His body language, his eyes, the mask, the light, everything culminated into a picture that represents the hell that incarcerated individuals deal with during the pandemic.” (Dave Kasnic)

8.12.20

139 Interviews/March August 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

8.16.20

Funeral workers in Peru's Uchumayo District bury a coffin in a massive burial ground for low-income people and unidentified victims of Covid-19.

(Diego Ramos/AFP/Getty Images)

140 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Thousands of people gather for an electronic music festival at a water park in Wuhan, China, on August 15. The novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan late last year. (STR/ AFP/Getty Images)

141 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

8.11.20

142 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

8 Paul Adams, 7, waits at te bus stop for the first day of school on Aug 3, 2020, in Dallas GA. (Brynn Anderson / AP)

A student has her temperature checked before entering classes at a school in Thankot, Nepal, on September 30. (Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

9.30.20

143 Interviews/March August 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

8.3.20 Kindergarten students wear face masks and play in screened-in areas at the Wat Khlong Toey School in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 10. (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

8.10.20

144 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

(Christopher Sadowski/WIRED)

9.16.20

A teacher sits in an empty classroom while conducting an online class at Santa Maria school amidst the coronavirus pandemic on October 2, 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

(Miguel Schincariol/Getty Images)

10.2.20

145 August-September Interviews/March 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

(Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times​/ Redux)

8.12.20 (https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/idouqa/the_cat_loves_to_show_her_ during_the_daughters/)

146

9.6.20

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A girl cries as she is tested for Covid-19 at a drive-thru testing station in East Jerusalem on September 6. (Emmanuel Dunand/ AFP/Getty Images)

147

Interviews/March September 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

148 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

9

Aureliano Mendoza became a street vendor after losing his longtime job and surviving Covid-19. He sells coconuts and fresh-squeezed orange juice in Jackson Heights. (New York Times)

149 Interviews/March September 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

9.8.20

A midtown Manhattan clothing store displays a “going out of business” sign on September 8, 2020. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Jenny Escobar, seated, began selling homemade ice pops with flavors from her native Colombia after she lost her steady job as a babysitter. (New York Times)

150 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

9.11.20

Joe Biden and Mike Pence meet and elbow bump at 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York City, reflecting coronavirus concern. (Amr Alfiky/Pool/Getty)

151 Interviews/March September 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

A woman watches the band Jikustik during a drive-in concert in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on September 20. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

9.20.20

152 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Maika Alvarez holds an iPad, as Jose Montoya, 94, interacts with his daughter, Lillie Ortiz, via Facetime. Mr. Montoya is a World War II veteran. “It’s difficult for those of us family members. We are crushed by the helpless position we are in. We cannot hold our loved one’s hand and comfort them by our presence. The only thing that reaches them is our prayers because they are quarantined behind locked doors,” said Ortiz. “It isn’t until COVID hits a nursing home that you see the snowballing effect of its unpredictability and of its devastation.” (Isadora Kosofsky/New York Times)

153 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

9.15.20

154 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

9.21.20

An adviser waits for people behind a plastic glass screen during a job fair in Barcelona, Spain, on September 21.

(David Ramos/Getty Images)

155 Interviews/March September 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

9.28.20

Medical residents sit in the middle of a street as they protest their working conditions in Barcelona, Spain, on September 28. (Emilio Morenatti/AP)

156 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Anna Moneymaker was sitting in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House, waiting to hear from her editor when President Donald Trump would be returning from a four-day stay at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where he was treated for COVID-19. When she got a text, she went over to the White House to capture Trump’s arrival. “His tweet that he posted right before leaving Walter Reed—‘Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.’—was on my mind as I saw him walk across the South Lawn,” she says, “and the whole moment felt as surreal as when I saw him go to Walter Reed days earlier.” Once she felt like she had a satisfying composure of Trump on the Truman Balcony, the president began removing his mask in “this slow, delicate way.” Not long afterward, Moneymaker and the other photographers were ushered away. “For all those who covered the White House that weekend, the whole period of time was a bit intense, trying to dig for the truth about the president’s health,” she says. “I never took my finger off the shutter.” (Anna Moneymaker/New York Times/Redux)

10.5.20

157 Interviews/March October 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

People hold a sign in Washington, DC, after President Donald Trump's acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention. Sources tell CNN the moment was planned by the Democratic National Committee War Room as part of its counter-convention programming.

(Chris Tuite/ImageSPACE/MediaPunch/IPX/AP)

8.27.20

158 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

A dog sniffs out COVID-19 during a training session at the national veterinary school of Alfort in Paris in October 2020. (Getty IMages/Via Bloomberg)

Late Oct.

159 Interviews/March October 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

160 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

11.14.20

Cars line up at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium for Covid-19 testing. (David McNew/Getty Images)

161 Interviews/March October 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

Spc. Demetrie Barnett of the Nevada National Guard administers a Covid-19 test to North Las Vegas City Councilwoman Pamela Goynes-Brown during a preview of a free drive-thru testing site on November 12. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

11.12.20

162 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

11.11.20

163 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

A nursing-home resident, left, speaks with her visiting daughter through a plastic screen in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, on November 11. The plastic screen is part of a "Hug Room" that allows residents and their families to embrace each other during the coronavirus pandemic. (Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images)

164

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Dr Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) during Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medial Center in Houston, Texas. (Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

165 Interviews/March November 2020 29 By: Christine Zhao

11.26.20

166 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

11.20.20

Cali Hammer fist-bumps Santa, who was behind a plexiglass partition at a Cabela's store in Tilden Township, Pennsylvania, on November 20. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle/Getty Images)

167 November Interviews/March 2020-January 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

Health-care workers celebrate the new year in the intensive care unit at the San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome.

(Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

1.1.21

168 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

US President-elect Joe Biden receives the first dose of his Covid-19 vaccine during a live televised event in Newark, Delaware, on December 21. (Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images)

12.21.20

169 Interviews/March January 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

A family gathers around the television in Liverpool, England, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the nation on January 4. Johnson reimposed a lockdown in England as a more transmissible variant of Covid-19 fueled a surge in infections and hospitalizations in the country. (Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images)

1.4.21

170

Chinese workers wait to receive a Covid-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination center in Beijing on January 15. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

1.15.21

Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

2.8.21

171 Interviews/March January 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

1.4.21

Motorists wait in lines for Covid-19 tests outside of Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP)

“I’m just being patient for my turn,” says Robert Gauthier. On this day, not quite a year after the dawn of the pandemic in America, the photographer was directing a drone to capture a winding line of drivers waiting their own turns to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot near Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Gauthier had covered his fair share of potential superspreader events over the past year—dozens of protests, the baseball World Series, and other large gatherings—that left him thinking, “I’m gonna get it now.” The national rollout across the country hasn’t always been orderly. To Gauthier, it’s worth the wait. “I’m 59,” he says. “I’m looking forward to the day I get to sit in that line.” (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

172 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

1.23.21

People dance in a park in Wuhan, China, on January 23, a year after the city went into lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. (Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images)

173 Interviews/March January 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

1.30.21 Sandra Fogel watches a movie alone January 30 during the Gothenburg Film Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden. Most fans watched the movies online this year. Fogel applied to be one of the few allowed to see a movie in person. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)

174 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

2.3.21

Peter Ben Embarek, a member of the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of Covid-19, receives a swab test on the balcony of a hotel in Wuhan, China, on February 3. (Aly Song/Reuters)

2.22.21

175 January-February Interviews/March 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

1.6.21

During the insurrection at the Capitol, photographer Christopher Lee says “there was a moment when a group of rioters grabbed me and forcibly pulled off my mask, accusing me of being ‘fake news,’ threatening physical harm and ridiculing me for taking the pandemic seriously.” Days later, Lee tested positive for COVID-19. “While in isolation, my mind told me to expect the worst,” Lee says. His mind and emotions, like many other Americans, “are slowly but surely navigating the fog” in which this country remains. “This feeling of anxiety, loss and anger is something that many people of color in marginalized communities deal with,” he adds. “Being back in my home state of Texas, I have felt weary of any proTrump logo I see being worn. I wonder if they were one of the rioters sporting the state’s flag in Washington, D.C., threatening me.” (Christopher Lee for Time)

The arrival of Joe Biden to the White House marked the return of a Consoler-in-Chief. Where his predecessor lacked empathy, Biden is a natural. That much was clear on the grim occasion when the United States hit 500,000 deaths as Biden—alongside First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff—held a candlelight memorial. “He wanted to honor everybody who had passed away, and honor the families that are living through it now,” says photographer Doug Mills.

“When it was over, everybody kind of looked at each other, a little bit speechless, like, ‘Wow, that was a powerful moment. It feels like a new beginning here.” Often in politics, he adds, “the goal post gets moved because things are getting worse. This one is not. This one is getting better. There’s a lot of light at the end of this tunnel.” (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux)

176 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

2.24.21

177 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

Anna, a resident of the Villa Sacra Famiglia Nursing Home, holds her daughter's hand in the Rome facility's "hug room" on February 24. The room allows residents and their families to touch one another while staying safe from Covid-19.

(Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

178 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

2.16.21

From left, high school students Emma Banker, Jessi McIrvin and Valerie Sanchez record their vocals in pop-up tents during a choir class in Wenatchee, Washington, on February 26. Wenatchee High School has been using the tents for its music programs during the Covid-19 pandemic. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

179 February-March Interviews/March 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

Musicians Albert Skuratov, right, and Samuel Palomino play a Mozart mini-concert for Covid-19 patients at the intensive care unit of Nurse Isabel Zendal Hospital in Madrid on March 11.

3.11.21

180 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Rally to stop Asian hate, McPherson Square, D.C. (Victoria Pickering)

3.21.21

3.20.21

181 February-March Interviews/March 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

2.20.21

Protestors hold signs that read "hate is a virus" and "stop Asian hate" at the End The Violence Towards Asians rally in Washington Square Park on February 20, 2021 in New York City. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, violence towards Asian Americans has increased at a much higher rate than previous years. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) reported a 1,900% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

A rally against the rising violence against Asian Americans in Manhattan. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP)

182

3.7.21

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Dr. Mayank Amin, dressed as Superman, prepares a Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, on March 7. Amin has been on a mission to vaccinate thousands of people in his rural community. (Hannah Beier/Reuters)

183 Interviews/March March 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

3.7.21

A woman receives a Covid-19 vaccine in Lalitpur, Nepal, on March 7. (Navesh Chitrakar/ Reuters)

184 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Bruno de Nicola, 43, a chef at the Italian Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, and Eunice Cides de Oliveira wait for their wedding ceremony inside an ambulance on March 11 in Rio de Janeiro. Bruno and "Nice" met five years ago at the consulate and already had a date to get married. During the coronavirus pandemic, Bruno was diagnosed with skin cancer and underwent treatment and at the end of last year it was discovered that the cancer had returned. Due to the prognosis and the pandemic, the couple decided to cancel the wedding. Bruno's doctor was moved by their story and arranged for a small ceremony to take place in the ambulance. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

3

185 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

3.11.21

186 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

A remote-controlled robot takes a throat swab at a hospital in Tanta, Egypt, on March 20. The robot prototype is part of a project to assist physicians in testing patients for Covid-19. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/ Getty Images)

3.20.21

187 Interviews/March March 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

1.6.21

A medical worker wearing a protective suit collects a throat swab from a local resident for Covid-19 antigen rapid test at a temporary testing center in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province of China. (Visual China Group/Getty)

2.10.21

Tokyo 2020 organizers stipulated that athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will be asked to test for the novel coronavirus at least once every four days.

(KYODO)

188 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

3.30.21

Yoshia Uomoto, 98, reacts as her son Mark Uomoto and niece Gail Yamada surprise her at her assisted-living facility in Seattle on March 30. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, it was their first in-person visit in a year. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters)

189 Interviews/March March-May 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

Passengers sit on the deck of the Costa Smeralda cruise ship in Savona, Italy, on May 1. The Italian cruise line Costa Cruises set sail for the first time in more than four months. (Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images)

5.1.21

190

FEMA vaccination facility administers Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson vaccines at the Miami Dade North Campus in North Miami, Florida, U.S. (Eva Marie Uzcategui for Bloomberg Business)

3.10.21

Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

5.11.21

191 Interviews/March March-May 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

5.9.21 A woman receives a shot of Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination center at the beach, in South Beach, Florida. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP)

Family members look on as Jack Frilingos, 12, receives a Covid-19 vaccine in Decatur, Georgia. It was a day after the US Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer's vaccine for the 12-15 age group.

(Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters)

192 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Health workers carry signs while participating in a protest outside a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 1. During the protest, which was part of International Workers' Day, they demanded better wages and working conditions as well as mass vaccinations against Covid-19. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images)

5.1.21

193 Interviews/March May-June 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

A demonstrator holds a sign that reads "Bolsonaro out" in a protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's administration on June 19, 2021 in Rio de Janeiro. Many are angry at his handling of the Covid-19 crisis as the country marks 500,000 deaths from the virus. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

6.19.21

194 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

Myrtle-Willoughby Avenues G train. July 2. (2021) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

(Ali Kate Cherkis for The New York Times)

195 Interviews/March 29 By: Christine Zhao

7.2.21

196 Corona Chronicals Quest 2020-21

A doctor holds up a poster asking people not to come to Japan for the Olympics during a protest against the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Protests have continued to take place in the run up to the Olympics amid concern over the safety of holding the Games during the global coronavirus pandemic.

(Carl Court/Getty Images)

6.23.21

Sunisa Lee of Team United States competes on balance beam during the Women’s All-Around Final on day six of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on July 29, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

(Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

7.29.21

197 Interviews/March June-August 2021 29 By: Christine Zhao

2.10.21 8.8.21

French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet perform the national anthem on saxaphone from outer space during closing ceremony. Will we get to see the Paris Olympics in 2024?

(Screenshot from Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony)

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Jeffrey Shiau, 35, a volunteer from the crowd, spits water into the mouth of Sam Kaufman, 27, a performer from the Human Fountains, during a reopening party held as COVID-19 restrictions are gradually lifted in Los Angeles, California. (Reuters/Cheney Orr)

People watch fireworks in front of the Statue of Liberty after the state of New York lifted most of its Covid-19 restrictions on Tuesday, June 15.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that 70% of adults in New York had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

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People in Barcelona, Spain, attend a concert for the rock group Love of Lesbian on March 27. Fans had to take a same-day Covid-19 test before attending the show, which was permitted by Spanish health authorities.

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Dimitri Grammatikopoulos, 25, at Gagopa Karaoke. He and his friends brought their own bottles of Brooklyn IPA and flasks filled with liquor. Koreatown, Manhattan. (Mary Inhea Kang for The New York Times)

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liberation party in Washington Square Park, Manhattan.

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Loss.

Courage.

Creativity.

Resilience.

Humanity.

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