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.
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...
'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...