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National Geographic 2020 11 November Vol 238 No 5 Special Issue
National Geographic Special Issue 2020 (11) November Vol 238 No 5
CONTENTS
ON THE COVER From a hospital in La Louviere, Belgium, this image shows a CT scan of the chest area and lungs of a 69-year-old patient with COVID-19. - CEDRIC GERBEHAYE
PROOF LIFE WITH CVID-19 The novel coronavirus has changed how we come into the world, live in it, and leave it. P. 8
INTRODUCTION THIS DEVASTATING YEAR COVID-19 dominated life in 2020 and left many wondering, What will recovery look like? BY CYNTHIA GORNEY P.19
DATA SHEET THE FIRST 100 DAYS How the virus spread across the globe. BY MANUEL CANALES AND IRENE BERMAN-VAPORIS P. 23
ESSAY LETTER TO MY GENERATION The pandemic has hit 18- to 25-year-olds hard. But don't dismiss us as Generation Screwed. BY JORDAN SALAMA P. 26
DECODER CORONAVIRUS, EXPLAINED How the virus attacks the human body. BY MANUEL CANALES AND ALEXANDER STEGMAIER P. 32
THROUGH THE LENS WHAT A COMMUNITY LOST Larry Hammond's death resounds within the organizations he loved. BY WILL SUTTON; PHOTO BY MAX AGUILERA-HELLWEG P. 36
DISPATCH 40 A CARE CRISIS:BELGIUM Overextended medical teams care for COVID-19 patients and listen to their fears. "If I don't do this," one nurse asks, "who will?" PHOTOGRAPHS BY CEDRIC GERBEHAYE
ESSAY 56 IN SCIENCE WE MUST TRUST After watching scientists debate, restate, and learn on the fly how to battle COVID-19, we should trust their work even more. BY ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
DISPATCH 66 LIVES UPENDED: INDONESIA The pandemic that filled graveyards also emptied streets. Still, people ventured out for essentials: religious observances and food. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MUHAMMAD FADLI
ESSAY 76 LET'S NOT WASTE THIS MOMENT Will the pandemic have a lasting effect on how we treat planet Earth? It couldif it changes our thinking. BY ROBERT KUNZIG
DISPATCH 90 LOCKDOWN PAIN: JORDAN Strict isolation measures held down the COVID-19 death toll but heightened joblessness and hardship, especially for refugees. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MOISES SAMAN
DATA SHEET 104 IMPOVERISHED BY COVID-19 The pandemic has hit the poor extremely hard and is projected to put 100 million more in extreme poverty by the end of 2020. BY ALBERTO LUCAS LOPEZ
DISPATCH 110 A WEALTH GAP: KENYA In Nairobi the virus looks very different to the affluent in spacious compounds than it does to the impoverished in crowded settlements. PHOTOGRAPHS BY NICHOLE SOBECKI
ESSAY 122 THE TIMES TEST OUR HUMANITY We are remindedby the pandemic and by social justice demonstrationsof the global ills and inequities that need our attention. BY PHILLIP MORRIS
DISPATCH 132 LOPSIDED LOSS: UNITED STATES In three hard-hit areas, a photographer hears bereaved people's stories of losing their loved ones to COVID-19 or its complications. PHOTOGRAPHS BY WAYNE LAWRENCE
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