National Geographic Magazine - UK

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LIFE WITH COVID-19 • The coronavirus has changed how we come into the world, live in it, and leave it.

We’ll Move On From This Devastating Year. But How? To What? • Say novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19. By any name, it has seized 2020, mocking our defenses and dominating our existence. In this issue, National Geographic explores the pandemic’s implications for science, for the environment, and for cultures throughout the world.

THE FIRST 100 DAYS • How the COVID-19 outbreak grew from a few cases in China to a global pandemic in less than three months

CONTAINING COVID • COVID-19 hit countries at different times, and not all governments took swift action in the 100 days following their first case. From no restrictions to stringent lockdowns, no approach was guaranteed to suppress the contagion.

A Letter to My Generation • We’re entering adulthood in the shadow of COVID-19, economic and social upheaval, and climate change. We don’t really feel like Gen Z or millennials—and some like to call us Generation Screwed. We say: Don’t underestimate our ability to overcome.

HOW IT ATTACKS

THE RACE TO VACCINATE

What COVID-19 Took From This Black Community • Across the United States the virus has been disproportionately deadly to African Americans. In New Orleans that meant the loss of a family man, fraternity brother, church usher, and youth mentor who was also a king of the Krewe of Zulu at Mardi Gras. This is Larry Hammond’s story.

BELGIUM • In COVID-19 wards, weary medical personnel care for the stricken and hear their whispered fears. “If I don’t do this,” one nurse asks, “who will?”

In Science We Must Trust • Researchers are struggling in fits and starts to understand the coronavirus. That’s just how science always works. Unsettling as it may be to watch, it’s the only way to defeat this pandemic.

TECH LEADS THE WAY

REMOTE POSSIBILITIES

INDONESIA • The pandemic that was filling up some graveyards also emptied streets—to a point. People still ventured out for essentials: religious holidays and food giveaways.

Let’s Not Waste This Moment • The pandemic has reminded us of the urgent need to stop abusing the planet. It could inspire us to prevent the looming climate disaster—if we can resist a return to business as usual.

GET OUT AND STAY OUT

The beginning of the end for carbon? • COVID-19 will likely bring about a record single-year reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

Solving the crisis sustainably • Individual actions are not enough to curtail warming.

ONE PLANET, TWO CRISES

To really go green, go big • Economic recovery plans today will determine our climate’s future.

JORDAN • Hardship follows hardship for the massive number of refugees living in Jordan. They largely eluded COVID-19—but not the job loss and deprivation it caused.

Price of a Pandemic: Poverty Spreads Around the Globe • By the end of 2020, about 100 million additional people are projected to find themselves in extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day. Millions more are slipping into less extreme poverty tiers. Continued lockdowns could worsen these already grim projections in 2021.

PUSHED INTO POVERTY • The devastating effects of COVID-19, combined with other natural and economic disasters, play out differently in each country. Many wealthier nations have been relatively insulated; some of the world’s poorest countries are struggling the most. In this visualization, the longer the colored bars, the bigger a country’s projected jump in poverty rates from...