Faces Of COVID

Every death has an echo. Every life lost reverberates across generations. How do we keep the people behind the staggering death tolls front and center? How do we retain our humanity, when we've been numbed by tragedy? That is the essential work of FacesOfCOVID, a project created by Alex Goldstein and on Twitter at @FacesOfCOVID. Cognoscenti has partnered with FacesOfCOVID to bring greater attention to a selection of the thousands of stories to date that have been shared. Here is that collection.

Salman Wasti and his daughter Noreen Wasti, pictured at Noreen's wedding in Bristol, Rhode Island, in Sept. 2013. (Courtesy)

Singing Bollywood In The Sunroom: A Daughter Remembers Her Dad As He Was Before COVID

Salman Wasti was an immigrant, a professor, a lover of plants and a collector of things. He’s also one of nearly 500,000 Americans who’ve died from COVID-19. Here, his daughter...

08:51Feb 19, 2021

Karen Nascembeni and her husband Steven T. Richard, who died from complications of COVID-19 on March 24, 2020. He was 58 years old. (Courtesy Karen Nascembeni)

'He Blew Me A Kiss. And That Was The Last Time I Saw Him': They Were Both Gravely Ill With COVID — But Only One Survived

Karen Nascembeni and her husband, Steven T. Richard, contracted the coronavirus last March. When Karen woke up after 31 days in a medically induced coma, Steven was gone. Here, she...

09:30Dec 22, 2020