CONSEQUENCES
When a virus is not taken seriously, people die. And when that virus is COVID-19, that number is over six million. People have grappled with this fact for the past two years, battling grief, depression, anxiety, and loneliness while politicians continued to treat COVID-19 like a game piece.
The front page of the New York Times dedicated to listing the names of people who died from COVID-19. (The New York Times)
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The front page of the Dallas Morning News captures the emotional impact of watching so many people die during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Dallas Morning News)
An Op-Ed in the Scientific American discusses the harm of Trump's COVID-19 denial. (Jacob Bor/Scientific American)
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The New York Times reports on the detrimental mental health effects COVID-19 has had on healthcare workers and other first responders. (Jan Hoffman/The New York Times)
Photojournalist Pete Kiehart captures the pain and isolation that comes with recovering from COVID-19. (Pete Kiehart/NPR)
Two women embrace through a plastic curtain separating them, unable to touch otherwise at the risk of spreading COVID-19. (Mads Nissen/Politiken)
A student social distances while wearing a mask at school. Behind her, another student foregoes masking. (Chris Low/George Fox University)
A cover of TIME magazine marks the American milestone of 200,000 deaths from COVID-19. (TIME)