Empty event tent with chairs on National Mall
A man stands inside an empty event tent with unfilled chairs on the National Mall at sunset on February 24, 2021, nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic's presence in the United States
COVID Memorial Project
A woman places a flag into the ground from a box at the memorial site. The Kickstarter for the DC-based group reads: “This administration has done nothing to memorialize this stunning number of lives lost...No flags lowered, no service held, no day of mourning declared—so the COVID Memorial Project seeks to simply say: these lives are more than a statistic—they were family, friends, neighbors.”
A volunteer places flags on the National Mall for COVID-19 memorial
Linnea Miller, a volunteer, helps place flags on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for the “In America: Remember” COVID-19 memorial art installation on September 16, 2021
Washington Convention Center prepares for vaccinations
The Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. is seen on March 5, 2021 as the city prepares to open the facility the next morning for the first time since the pandemic began as one of three mass-vaccination sites in the city. Pre-registered qualifying residents are currently eligible to get the Johnson and Johnson single-shot vaccine.
COVID-19 testing in Washington, D.C.
People wait to be tested for COVID-19 in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 2020, as daily case and death numbers increase nationwide before the Christmas holiday
A National Guard member stands at an entrance to a government COVID-19 testing site in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 2020, as daily case and death numbers increase nationwide before the Christmas holiday
Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and an aide look on towards the flags representing the dead
The sun sets behind a sign at the Covid Memorial Project
A man and a woman, the latter wearing a sweater reading 'Intensive Care Unit', look over the memorial flags
Abandoned streets during COVID-19
Public tennis courts are closed off during the first months of COVID-19
A closed Chinese restaurant on 18th Street, N.W.
A lone bicyclist travels down the middle of the normally busy 18th Street
A sign is displayed in the window of an abandoned storefront
