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The Year Apart
These stories of grief, love and hope show how COVID has forever changed the lives of New Yorkers
There was life before the coronavirus arrival a year ago. And there will be life after it s gone. This is the story of the months in between.
Katie Sullivan Borrelli and Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY Network - New York
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7:32 pm UTC Feb. 28, 2021
There was life before the coronavirus arrival a year ago. And there will be life after it s gone. This is the story of the months in between.
Katie Sullivan Borrelli and Peter D. Kramer, USA TODAY Network - New York
.Peter Carr/The Journal News
I spent April 3 photographing COVID testing preparations. The health-care center had painted lines 6 feet apart and the staff had PPE, before masks were in wide public use. On the drive home, in Blauvelt, I saw a circle of women standing in the rain. I stopped and, when I got close, saw they were reciting the Rosary. After their last Amen, they walked back to their houses. Their church, St. Catharine s Church, had been closed by the coronavirus, one told me. Their quiet prayer in the rain under towering trees was a stark contrast to the health center where they were busy finding ways to make things work.