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In memoriam: The people, smiles, voices we lost in 2020
39 of the most recognizable faces who died this year
Michelle Ganley, Digital Content Team Managing Editor, Graham Media Group
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Regis Philbin on set during his final show of Live! with Regis & Kelly on Nov. 18, 2011 in New York. (Getty Images)
We lost a lot of big names in 2020, from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek to NBA legend Kobe Bryant.
Of course, it was a hard year for all people across the nation and the globe with more than 315,000 deaths in the United States (and counting) due to COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2020 in review: COVID-19 was the story
December 21, 2020
The first mention of the word “coronavirus” in a Cornell Chronicle story in 2020 came on Jan. 29, when the university designated mainland China as an elevated-risk destination, and imposed travel restrictions on students, faculty and staff.
Since then, there have been more than 300 stories or university statements that mention COVID-19 posted on news.cornell.edu. It has been the story of the year.
The most-read Chronicle story of the year was a Weill Cornell Medicine-produced research FAQ from April 20, “Why is COVID-19 mild for some, deadly for others?” Given the fact that so much remains unknown about this mysterious virus, it’s no surprise that more than 60,000 readers – and counting – clicked on this story.
Top stories of 2020 in Washington state
In the longest, shortest year in most of our lives, a lot happened. Recap the year with us and look ahead to 2021.
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2020 had no shortage of news events, from a global pandemic and an election year to another reckoning with systemic racism and wildfires across the West. (Clockwise from top left: Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dan DeLong/InvestigateWest; Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
The word of the year has to be “unprecedented.” It’s maddening, overused and, unfortunately, true. Time feels simultaneously frozen and moving at least a million miles an hour. As a result, it can be difficult to remember what the heck happened these past 12 months between our bouts of reading