Pandemic
The Baltimore Sun
Backstretch workers are often thought of as Pimlico’s unsung heroes, the ones who get the job done, with little fanfare, attention or pay.
The Baltimore Sun
One by one, the rest of the family fell ill with the virus — her younger son, her husband, Sanchez herself. While they all gradually recovered, she still had to wrestle with another fear: Without her husband working in construction, they were not going to be able to pay rent.
The Baltimore Sun
As a bilingual social worker and facilitator on the Latino Family Advisory Board, Giusti said she’s had an open phone line during the pandemic. She normally addresses clients’ psychosocial needs in person.
The Baltimore Sun
With the pandemic hitting Baltimore’s Latino community harder than almost any other group, advocates and health care providers are pushing on many fronts to make sure these residents get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Baltimore Sun
Elsa Aguilar Bustos helps as women are having babies. She helps patients brought in for emergency care. Now as she works the 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. shift at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, she also helps those suffering from COVID-19, along with others
The Baltimore Sun
The list of the deceased for the All Souls Day service at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church was much longer than normal. Under the painting of St. Joseph, patron saint of a happy death, was an ofrenda, or altar, with 36 white crosses — one for each parishioner who has died from COVID-19.
PBS Newshour
Through poetry, Alok Vaid-Menon and Alán Peláez López are helping to foster support systems that were disrupted by COVID-19.
PBS Newshour
Korean-Swedish artist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom is addressing the hostility Asians increasingly are facing during the COVID-19 global pandemic in a series of one-panel comics.
PBS Newshour
As communities scale back the size of their gatherings amid the pandemic, many museums are temporarily shut down as a precautionary measure. But that doesn’t mean their collections and other online art exhibits can’t be viewed from home.