Living Through a Pandemic: On the Frontlines

This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals.

Despite all the talk about appreciating health care workers, one California nurse caring for the sickest patients felt she needed more support.

As a senior paramedic in New York City, Anthony Almojera is used to being close to death. But nothing in his 17-year career could have prepared him for the outbreak of coronavirus.

I’ve called people from all walks of life, from highly paid executives to minimum-wage workers and the unemployed. The responses to the news I deliver is as varied as they are.

One doctor is pregnant, one just gave birth, one has three small children at home, and one has three teens. Read their first-person essays.

Around the world, more than 40 teams are working on a vaccine for Covid-19. We followed one doctor in the most urgent quest of his life.

While the city sleeps, a team of nurses cares for the sickest of the sick in the Covid-19 ICU at Northeast Baptist Hospital. For nurses, the night shift is long stretches of quiet, punctuated by crisis. We spent two nights alongside them.

The Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, was the first COVID hot spot in the U.S.Forty-six people associated with the nursing home died, exposing how ill-prepared we were for the pandemic—and how we take care of our elderly. This is their story.

The most unforgettable first-person essays and on-the-ground reports that told the story of coronavirus in 2020.