
Also FeaturedĬhris Guerrieri, life skills teacher at Palm Avenue Exceptional Student Center in Jacksonville, Florida. We spoke with her about life during the pandemic in October 2020. We spoke with her in May 2020.Įrin Bailey, a single mom with four children. We spoke with her in January 2021 during a COVID surge in LA County.Īlexis Brown, student engagement coach for 16 to 21-year-olds for the non-profit SER Metro-Detroit. Today, On Point: Checking in with Americans we heard from during the pandemic about life now.

"I just can't stress enough how different this is than it's ever been," Valerie Ewald, a recently retired nurse, says.


Over three years, Americans saw their lives forever changed. Sustained jumps in cases and hospitalizations fueled by the hyper-infectious BA.5 subvariant pushed Los Angeles County into the high COVID-19 community level Thursday, a shift that could trigger a new public indoor mask mandate by the end of this month unless conditions improve.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
