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One Year Later

People light candles at a vigil for those who died in the Covid-19 pandemic, in April 2020, in Queens, New York. | John Nacion/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

A collection of stories about the coronavirus pandemic — what we’ve been through and where we go from here.

For many Americans, everything changed last March; that was when a national emergency was declared in response to what we were calling “the novel coronavirus” and when the first stay-at-home orders rolled out. Now it’s March again, a reality that is hard to process for many reasons, not least because time has ceased to make sense during the pandemic. We are also on the precipice of change once again, but the good kind, with the Covid-19 vaccine expected to be available to all adults in the US by spring’s end.

This month, Vox has