PRODUCTION BY Katrina Hamlin

GRAPHICS BY Vincent Flasseur

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A doctor collects a swab sample from a man to be tested for Covid-19 outside Clinic Ajwa in Shah Alam, Malaysia, Dec. 10, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng

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MAKING THE BEST OF IT

Drones with LED lights create a word reading “hope” as a tribute to people who have died of Covid-19, during a show in Madrid, Spain, June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

CRUSHING IT

A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment passes by a frontliner mural outside a clinic, amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 27, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng

IT IS WHAT IT IS

A man wearing a face mask looks through a window while outside demonstrators take part in a protest against the lack of personal protective equipment during the Covid-19 outbreak, at the Tide Setubal public hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 17, 2020. REUTERS/ Rahel Patrasso

LIVING WITH IT

A medical specialist wearing personal protective equipment walks through a disinfection chamber at a hospital in Moscow, Russia, May 25, 2020. REUTERS/ Maxim Shemetov

ITS TIME HAS COME

A woman wears a protective face shield as she roller-skates at Moja museum amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 11, 2020. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana

FUGGEDABOUTIT

An abandoned mask is seen on the ground in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, United States, amid the global outbreak of Covid-19, Nov. 11, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis