Remember 2020

Photos, Videos and Stories from the year

Ingred Cruez (left) and Marie Rodriguez help customers from behind acrylic panels during the lunch rush at Matthews Cafeteria on Main Street in Tucker. Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The words that shaped the way we ate in 2020

April 28, 2020 Carrollton: Camilla White visits her mother Lillian Barber, 90, from outside seeing her through the window while touching fingertips through the glass at Cottage Landing Assisted Living on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Carrollton. White didn’t discover there had been several deaths at the home from coronavirus and a significant outbreak until seeing the info on a state website and said that before the outbreak “I would go inside and just lay my head in her lap, but I can’t do none of that anymore.” Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com

AJC 2020 Photos of the year: Curtis Compton

$April 16, 2020 Atlanta: A shout out to frontline workers during the COVID-19 crisis was expressed by a banner hanging from the Jackson Street Bridge in Atlanta on Thursday, April, 16, 2020 visible to westbound motorists on the John Lewis Freedom Parkway. As of Wednesday evening, 15,260 Georgians had tested positive for COVID-19. That figure represented an increase of 682 cases in 24 hours. Georgia will dramatically expand testing for the novel coronavirus, following weeks of diagnostic rationing that obscured the pandemic’s full effects. For the first time in Georgia, tests will be offered to anyone displaying symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, state officials said Wednesday. Those symptoms include fever, fatigue and a dry cough. But the state’s public health department has only 5,000 test kits on hand, a tiny fraction of the number that experts say are needed to track and contain the virus. The state has signed a contract to buy additional kits from a Sandy Springs-based company, Ipsum Diagnostics, which recently received emergency federal approval to deploy its newly developed tests. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM$

2020 Photos of the Year: John Spink

2020 Stories