Hugging loved ones. Shaking hands. Going to school. Grabbing dinner at a restaurant. Visiting elderly family members. Most Americans didn’t know this week last year was their last chance at normalcy.
And while people have learned to adjust, the coronavirus pandemic has upended — and taken — millions of lives across the globe.
Add the upheaval of a nation’s reckoning with racism and injustice along with a historic presidential election, and the pandemic year becomes more than about the virus.
It’s also the year racial, socioeconomic and health care issues have demanded attention. The Associated Press was there — for all of it.