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A Year in Pandemia

COVID-19 has upturned every aspect of our lives and forced the world to reckon with its systemic inequities. Travel back through a year of unforgettable loss — but also courage and resilience — to see how the world has forever changed in the aftermath.

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Interior of a bookstore. | Flickr/rob walsh/Creative Commons (Public Domain Mark 1.0)
Without in-person events to launch their new books, authors are touring virtually.
The Padilla children work on their nature-themed float for the virtual Rose Parade. | Courtesy of David Eads
As staying at home has become the norm, children are finding ways to cope and express their creativity through surprising artworks, aided by adults and cultural institutions.
American Contemporary Ballet dancer Josh Brown lifts up and embraces dancer Sarah Bukowski in a dance. | Pierre Michel-Estival
Los Angeles artists have discovered innovative ways to dance together but apart.
April Bey, "COMPLY (Borg Feminism)," 2018. | Courtesy of the artist.
In recent weeks, artists have found their practices upturned, expanded or reenergized because of COVID-19 and calls to address racial injustice.
Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange, Los Angeles | Denys Nevozhai/Unsplash
The efforts of the creative community point to the importance of the arts. First responders save people from immediate situations. Second responders like those in the creative community save lives after, or during, a crisis in sometimes immeasurable ways.
Rina Chavarria, center, with her 12-year-old son and 20-year-old daughter. Chavarria contracted COVID-19 in late April. Co-workers and neighbors have gotten sick, too. | Courtesy Rina Chavarria/UFCW770
As many Angelenos were under stay-at-home orders, disparities in how the virus was affecting people became clear. People of color and in low-income communities were becoming infected at higher rates in L.A. County.
Father David Gallardo said he was just as excited as parishioners for the cathedral to reopen. | Josie Huang/LAist
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels is the main church of the largest archdiocese in the country, able to seat 3,000 people. But the pandemic has forced the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to overhaul how it ministers to its five million person flock.
BRIA of Belleville, a rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility in Belleville, Ill. | Whitney Curtis/The New York Times
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated the nation's nursing homes, sickening staff members, ravaging residents and contributing to at least 20 percent of the nation's COVID-19 death toll.
Carmelle concentrates while cutting a client's hair in her living room. | Chava Sanchez/LAist
Barbershops and hair salons around the state have been closed since mid-March to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. But that doesn't mean people haven't been getting haircuts, secretly, this whole time.
Tariq Carlson, left, and mom Diane Rabinowitz. Carlson is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and is incarcerated at Twin Towers jail. | Courtesy of Diane Rabinowitz
Carlson is one of thousands of people living with a mental illness inside an L.A. County jail. And with in-person visitation frozen because of the coronavirus, they're more cut off from the outside world than ever.
Father Albert Avenido standing next to Eileen Neri's casket at her funeral. No one was allowed to attend because of COVID-19.
The Rev. Albert Avenido fiddled with the wires connecting the sound board to the cameras, microphones and recording equipment.  He and his assistant worked late the night before to be ready for mass.
Lindsey Burrell, 38, is an ICU nurse in Torrance. | Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center
For the past nine years, Burrell has worked in the ICU at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance. But providing care for COVID-19 patients is different.
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