Gym owner: ‘When I got the shot, I started crying immediately. I got a vaccine for the disease that devastatingly killed my mother.’
“I feel OK, but I’m not ecstatic to be here. It’s hard to be alive and vibrant in this time that seems very dark.”
This community reporting project was launched in March 2020 as a way to show the pandemic’s toll over a sustained period of time in Minneapolis. It was published in the Southwest Journal until the paper’s closure in December 2020. Below are local residents’ stories recorded after the paper’s closure.