COVID-19, One Year Later

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We’ve reached the one-year anniversary of Chicago’s stay-at-home order. From schools going virtual to plastic shields lining the grocery store check-out lane, just about every aspect of life has been affected by the pandemic. To mark all the change this year has brought, we hear some essays from folks who’ve written about their experiences. Plus we look to the future and visit some vaccination sites to answer a listener’s question about what the vaccine means to people. From “cautious” to “hopeful,” they tell us what they’re most looking forward to next.

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0:00.0	It's been a year since the pandemic shut down Chicago and completely changed just about every aspect of our lives.
0:08.7	So let's review.
0:10.1	Now to growing concerns about the deadly coronavirus officially hitting the U.S.
0:14.5	Here's what we know.
0:15.3	Governor J.B. Pritzker just announced the state's first fatality, a woman in her 60s.
0:20.0	To avoid the loss of potentially tens of thousands of lives, we must enact an immediate
0:25.5	stay-at-home order for the state of Illinois.
0:28.6	Since yesterday, we lost an additional 31 lives for a total of 9,418 deaths.
0:34.9	What we're asking our residents to do, we're saying, look, here's what the reality is.
0:38.5	It's better to have a Zoom Thanksgiving than an ICU Christmas.
0:42.6	The Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
0:47.7	We will be launching a new mass vaccination site at the United Center.
0:52.7	And that means Illinois could start going back to normal.
0:57.9	All right. So we applaud? I think so.
1:05.3	I'm Curious City editor Alexandra Solomon. And on today's episode, we're going to take some time
1:10.8	to acknowledge this
1:11.9	anniversary. We'll share some personal essays from people who've written about what this year's been
1:16.9	like. Like everyone, I have chafed against the monotony of these days. But I would be lying if I said
1:22.2	I haven't come to love their quiet rhythm, their very sameness. And as more and more people get vaccinated for COVID,
1:29.6	we went out to some vaccination sites in the city
1:31.8	to ask them how it feels and what it all means.
1:34.9	It was like fabulous.
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