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Coronavirus In Seattle
A historic, unforgettable year: 2020 in pictures By
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he first Covid-19 outbreak in the United States stopped Seattle in its tracks. Toilet paper, hand sanitizer and masks vanished from store shelves.
Streets eerily empty. Spouses separated by panes of glass. Businesses boarded up â a canvas for the cityâs muralists to offer some degree of hope. It was a surreal new reality with no end in sight.
And then came May.
Following the murder of George Floyd at the end of the month, thousands poured into Seattleâs streets to continue a fight thatâs hundreds of years old. Demanding justice for Black Americans and an end to police brutality, protesters were met with tear gas and flash bang grenades on Capitol Hill. For months, every single day, throughout the region â people marched.