US EditionFive years later, students and educators still feel COVID's impacts
- The COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in 2020 and marking its fifth anniversary this month, stunned communities like Detroit and Colorado, becoming a historic crisis and exposing deep health and economic inequities.
- In early 2020, cities prepared for the oncoming pandemic by monitoring outbreaks in places like Seattle, but the speed and severity of the virus still hit hard.
- Across the nation, hospitals were overwhelmed, misinformation spread, and essential workers risked infection to keep cities running, resulting in over a million deaths nationwide and disproportionately affecting Black and Latino communities.
- Detroit's response, led by Denise Fair Razo, focused on saving lives and protecting the community, organizing mass testing and distributing vaccines, while Colorado's Governor Polis issued orders and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ran simulations in preparation.
- Even five years later, communities continue to grapple with grief, trauma, and the ongoing effects of the pandemic, including mental health challenges, learning loss, and the need for greater community partnerships and resources, with some seeking a national memorial to remember the lives lost; families are still searching for closure, as Pamela Gallardo said it "leaves a hole in your heart that's never gonna fill back up no matter what you do".
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Five years later, students and educators still feel COVID's impacts
DULUTH — In March 2020, Duluth East High School teacher Catherine Nachbar had a feeling that when the district announced schools would be shutting down, it wouldn’t be as temporary as they planned. Across the globe, Nachbar and her students were following the path of the COVID-19 virus as it spread to different parts of the world. A world history teacher, her classes were in the middle of learning about the bubonic plague. “Schools were closing …
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Fairfield Sun TimesFive years later, COVID 'hangover' still lingers in Bozeman, Gallatin County
Fear and uncertainty went hand in hand. COVID-19 was a novel virus, meaning little was known about it, and there was no reason to think a vaccine was coming as quickly as it did.
Denver Post
Grief lingers 5 years after COVID-19 arrived in Colorado, killing thousands
PUEBLO — When paramedics showed up at Bernie Esquibel-Tennant’s door the day after Thanksgiving in 2020, it was the second time in roughly 12 hours that an ambulance had visited her stretch of the neighborhood. The night before, Esquibel-Tennant had watched as paramedics came for Adolph Gallardo, a man her children called Grandpa who lived across the street. Now they were here for her sister Melissa. Melissa Esquibel’s oxygen level had dropped d…
Defense Pays Tribute to Fallen to a Lust of the Pandemic · Global Voices
David Vicenteño Upon completion of the first five years of the publication of the Declaration of Emergency for the Epidemia of Coronavirus Covid-19, the Secretariat of the National Defense (Defense) held a ceremony in which recognitions were given to the relatives of the personnel who died during the tasks of care to the population. YOU MAY INTEREST: Defense secures 'monsters' vehicles and others used for crime in Tamaulipas The event was led by…
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