COVID-19 pandemic, the world paused. Lives came to a standstill, if they weren’t lost altogether, while economies crashed. People were told to protect themselves as a way to protect others from contracting the virus.Scientists were put in overdrive, as governments worked tirelessly to find an end to something no one had anticipated less than a year earlier.
All the while, the global population was asked to do what they could to slow the spread.“In many areas of the country, mitigation efforts are inadequate,” a report from the White House Coronavirus Taskforce stated in late November.