For many Americans, everything changed last March; that was when a national emergency was declared in response to what we were calling “the novel coronavirus” and when the first stay-at-home orders rolled out. Now it’s March again, a reality that is hard to process for many reasons, not least because time has ceased to make sense during the pandemic. We are also on the precipice of change once again, but the good kind, with the Covid-19 vaccine expected to be available to all adults in the US by spring’s end.
One Year Later
A collection of stories about the coronavirus pandemic — what we’ve been through and where we go from here.
One Year Later
The pandemic took lives far too soon. How much human potential has been lost?
By Terry Nguyen and Brian Resnick
One Year Later
“Is this going to be like this forever?” An oral history of fear, endurance, and hope in Sunset Park.
By Anna North and Jen Kirby
One Year Later
Covid-19 would take hundreds of thousands of older Americans in nursing homes. Desperate that his ailing father would not be among them, one writer bounded home.
By Davy Rothbart
One Year Later
The pandemic took lives far too soon. How much human potential has been lost?
By Terry Nguyen and Brian Resnick
One Year Later
“Is this going to be like this forever?” An oral history of fear, endurance, and hope in Sunset Park.
By Anna North and Jen Kirby
One Year Later
Covid-19 would take hundreds of thousands of older Americans in nursing homes. Desperate that his ailing father would not be among them, one writer bounded home.
By Davy Rothbart
This month, Vox has put together a collection of stories meant to help us all understand what we’ve been through this past year and where we go from here. There are stories about loss, but also survival; stories about family, about neighborhoods, about work; stories about birthdays and movies and food delivery. We’ll be publishing new pieces throughout March, all of which you’ll be able to find here.
Cover Image: People light candles at a vigil for those who died due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in April 2020 in Queens, New York. (SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Everything in One Year Later
One Year Later
Millions of Americans have lost relatives and friends. We need to pay attention to the science and consequences of grief.
By Brian Resnick
One Year Later
Tech billionaires emerged from a year of hardship as more than leaders of iconic companies. They are central — almost too central — characters in American life.
By Theodore Schleifer
One Year Later
Why a memorial for Covid-19 victims can help us process our grief, and our anger, too.
By Alissa Wilkinson
One Year Later
From where we work to how our work is measured, office work will be permanently different after the pandemic.
By Rani Molla
One Year Later
14 people look back and offer advice to their past selves on what’s to come.
By Vox First Person
One Year Later
What C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed can tell us about our year of loss.
By Constance Grady
One Year Later
How capitalism and the pandemic destroyed our work-life balance.
By Constance Grady
One Year Later
From Contagion to World War Z to Palm Springs, what the artists who foresaw the pandemic are thinking now.
By Alissa Wilkinson
One Year Later
Harm reduction works. Covid-19 has proved it.
By German Lopez
One Year Later
By March 2020, researchers knew that uncontrolled spread would be disastrous.
By Brian Resnick