Hopeful Images From 2020

Alan Taylor provides some uplifting images from the past 12 months—an effort to seek out and recognize some of the joy and kindness present in the world around us, even in the midst of a truly awful year.

The first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan of the U.K., is pushed in a wheelchair down a hospital hallway lined with applauding health-care workers wearing maroon or blue scrub tops and black pants.
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