“The thing of it is that this is actually is a life-changing event. In the near term, at least, it’s clear the pandemic has been a seismic event, even for people who’ve managed not to catch the virus.

The pandemic has widened racial and economic fault lines, with Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans 4 times as likely as whites to be hospitalized from COVID, and about twice as likely to die from it, according to the CDC.Įxperts will study the impacts of this time in our lives for years, perhaps decades. Thousands who have recovered from their infections are living with symptoms that don’t seem to be going away. A recent study by researchers at Penn State University found that every person who dies of COVID leaves nine others grieving for their loss. Those deaths have unleashed a tsunami of grief. accounts for 25% of the world’s known COVID cases, with nearly 25 million identified here and more than 400,000 Americans dead. Whole industries paused -conventions, concerts, sports, tourism, restaurants, movies, theaters.Ĭurrently, the U.S.

The announcement was the barest hint of the disruptions that were coming: Business and school closures, stay-at-home orders, face masks, curfews, social distancing, remote work, empty grocery store shelves, the disturbing lack of essential protective supplies, a health care system overwhelmed by emergencies and abandoned for routine care, mobile morgues, evictions. 25, 2021 - This month marks a year since the CDC first told us that a 35-year-old man in Washington state had tested positive for a new coronavirus after returning from a trip home to see his family in Wuhan, China.

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