Life in the time of COVID Snapshots of how one WashU family lived, worked and thrived in a year that threw us all off balance The Nussinov family — (from left) Maya, Tsitsi, Zohar and Ethan — walking their dog, Pi, in Clayton’s Oak Knoll Park. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) February 22, 2021 SHARE In 2020, so much about what we know to be normal came to a grinding halt for the Washington University in St. Louis community. One week in March, we’re looking ahead to a spring “break,” and then suddenly it’s a hiatus turned into a couple of months that’s turned into a way of life. A sea change, that no one really saw coming. Yet the work of the university went on — and goes on as the pandemic spills into 2021. How? Because of all of us.