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A World Gone Viral,\u00a0National Geographic, November 2020 issue<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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As we write, with the US presidential election eleven days away, the Covid-19 pandemic is about to hit all time highs in infections in the US and is ramping up further around the world, with 42 million infections and 1.1 million deaths in the past nine months and getting worse by the day.<\/p>\n

The new November issue of National Geographic Magazine is dedicated to the issue of the pandemic worldwide. It cannot be missed.<\/p>\n

The link to the cover article, which links to numerous other articles, is below. It has moving reports and extraordinary photographs from a number of nations worldwide:<\/p>\n

“A World Gone Viral”<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Cynthia Gorney, November 2020 issue, Natioana; Geographic Magazine<\/p>\n

Photographers in five countries show how COVID-19 became a painful, shared experience around the globe.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From a hospital in La Louvi\u00e8re, Belgium, this image shows a CT scan of the chest area and lungs of a 69-year-old patient with COVID-19.<\/span><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n
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GLOBAL<\/i> PANDEMIC.<\/b> We\u2019ve been reading and hearing these words for more than seven months now. Sometimes the limits of human imagination are a blessing: If we actually possessed the ability to visualize the globe\u2019s people during this crisis\u2014the same grief and fear spread across so many different settings, cultures, languages\u2014we might not be able to endure it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But these international photographers\u2019 dispatches, gathered in five different countries over 2020\u2019s spring and summer, begin to distill the enormity and variety of the pandemic experience. C\u00e9dric Gerbehaye, his native Belgium at one point registering the world\u2019s highest per capita COVID19 death rate, spent weeks documenting overwhelmed Belgian medical and nursing home workers. Nichole Sobecki, an American who has lived for nearly a decade in Nairobi, photographed the hustle and anxiety of her adopted city\u2019s grapple with quarantine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In Jordan, new resident Moises Saman explored the country\u2019s massive population of refugees as pandemic lockdown and recession added one more hardship to their existence. An Indonesian travel ban kept Jakarta photographer Muhammad Fadli from making the annual Ramadan visit to his parents\u2019 village; he took his cameras into the streets instead. (How the coronavirus outbreak grew from a few cases in China to a global pandemic in less than three months.)<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And in the United States, Wayne Lawrence photographed portraits of the pandemic-bereaved: women and men who have lost people they loved. The mourners in Lawrence\u2019s portraits are from Detroit, New Orleans, and the metropolitan area around New York City. Take a minute with them, if you can. They were willing to let themselves be shown, in this extraordinary brutal year, with pain still filling their faces. They deserve to have us try, at least, to see.<\/div>\n
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