Pre-COVID-19: The Look of Innocence

This is a photo of my husband and me at our friends' cow farm in Normandy on February 7, 2020, which seems like a million years ago. It was right before the coronavirus pandemic really hit. We still had friends going to  Austin for SXSW. Weddings were being planned, meetings and conferences were unchanged, and the Summer 2020 Olympics were set for Tokyo. We had no idea that the U.S. would even come close (and now surpass) Wuhan, China.

Today, billions of people are ordered to stay home, the economy is at a standstill, thousands and thousands of schools and universities are closed ... and people are dying.

Nearly 200 U.S. cities reported a DIRE need for masks, test kits, ventilators, and other emergency equipment vital to fighting the virus.

Coronavirus Cases

577,619

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Deaths

26,447

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Last updated: March 27, 2020, 17:53 GMT

Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/