Note: The captions provided on each image were relevant as of when the photo was taken.
How do you explain in words the impact that 2020 has left on us, as a global pandemic has raged on?
The answer: You don’t.
Recommended Videos
There are some things in life that can only be illustrated through images -- quite possibly the best way to truly convey the magnitude of a situation and the emotions it brought.
Admittedly, we know there’s no way to encompass all that COVID-19 has meant for the world in 2020, but these photos, perhaps, begin to scratch the surface in showing the emotional year that health care workers, patients and the world has endured.
Warning: Some images may contain content that depict death.
Forty Second Street stands mostly empty as much of the city is void of cars and pedestrians over fears of spreading the coronavirus on March 22, 2020 in New York City. Across the country, schools, businesses and places of work have either been shut down or are restricting hours of operation as health officials try to slow the spread of COVID-19. (2020 Getty Images)
A worker uses a forklift to move a body outside of the Brooklyn Hospital on March 31, 2020 in New York, United States. Due to a surge in deaths caused by the coronavirus, hospitals are using refrigerator trucks as makeshift morgues. (2020 Getty Images)
Lily Sage Weinrieb transfers remains from a NYC hospital on April 23, 2020 in New York City. After studying at the American Academy McAllister Institute, Lily Sage Weinrieb, 25, from Philadelphia, PA started her residency as a funeral director at International Hamilton Heights Funeral Home in Harlem. Before the pandemic, the home averaged 30-40 clients per month. Now, that number has quadrupled. Between transferring remains from hospitals, viewings, paperwork, embalmments, crematorium and cemetery runs, Lily works from 8am to midnight. She often sleeps on a couch in the funeral chapel. She is completely overwhelmed scheduling funerals for a month in advance and not able to do many aspects of her job like being able to console grieving relatives with a hug nor a touch and limiting numbers at viewing and burials. Despite these impediments, Lily attempts to find solutions such as video viewings and other ceremonies. (2020 Getty Images)
Dawn Jorgenson, Graham Media Group Branded Content Managing Editor, began working with the group in April 2013. She graduated from Texas State University with a degree in electronic media.
