President Joe Biden is using his first prime time address on March 11 to commemorate the one year since the pandemic shut down most of the country.
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President Joe Biden is using his first prime time address on March 11 to commemorate the one year since the pandemic shut down most of the country.
Credit: John Lamparski/Getty Images

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The US pandemic at one year: Looking back at the week everything changed, and looking forward

This week's news coverage of the coronavirus will toggle between retrospectives about the one-year anniversary of the pandemic and forward-looking reports about vaccines and variants. I have compiled what some news outlets are doing to mark the moment, but first, here is a flashback to twelve months ago.