KATHLEEN FLYNN

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Dana Clark, and her son 18 month old Mason, wait in line at City Hall as early voting begins for the presidential election in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., October 16, 2020. She had purchased the safety pod she is wearing to use in the classroom with her fifth-grade students, 'hoping to protect them'.

The Odyssey House Louisiana (OHL), began offering testing to bicyclists at their drive-through testing site in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. March 27, 2020. At that time, the local testing sites run by the city and the National Guard were only offering tests and assessments to those with access to a vehicle. "Here in the city of new Orleans it's estimated that approximately ten percent of our population does not have a vehicle or access to a vehicle," said Graham Bradshaw, Director of OHL. Bradshaw said the other sites have been running out of testing by 1pm every day. The OHL testing runs from 3pm to 5pm daily. "This offers people the opportunity to not sit in a line all day."

Emergncy medicine physician Thomas Krajewski wears a mask as he holds his baby Cal with his wife Genevieve after finishing his shift amid an outbreak of COVID-19 in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., March 27, 2020.

Trump supporter Drake Travis, wearing a Trump flag as a cape, walks through the Charlotte airport on his way to see his parents after exiting an American Airlines flight from Dallas on October 30, 2020.

A poll worker walks past people cast their votes for the upcoming presidential election as early voting begins in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., October 16, 2020.

Carol “Kit” Harris delivers lunch to a funeral home. Her aunt and mother died of covid-19 within three weeks of each other in April. The funeral restrictions hit particularly hard for Carol Harris’s family, which is close-knit and connected to faith in a way that’s familiar to many big families in this predominantly Catholic city.

Charbonnet Labat Funeral Home employee Brittney Elmore waits to greet family and friends of Leona “Chine” Gradison, during a drive-through viewing for her on April 24, 2020. Gradison, who owned the Candlelight Lounge, a popular nightclub in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, died at 69 years old after contracting the coronavirus.

Carol "Kit" Harris, looks to the sky as the caskets carrying her mother Mary “Grams” Braud Harris, and aunt Clarice “Reecie” Braud Willis are taken from Professional Funeral Home as they proceed to the cemetery on May 9, 2020. Carol stood outside of the building during the service, so that her daughter could attend. In normal times, the women’s homegoing celebrations would have been a week-long event, with family members flying in from all across the country. But pandemic travel is not easy and was made harder by orders issued by several states requiring a two-week mandatory quarantine for anyone coming from pandemic hot spots like Louisiana.

Glen David Andrews plays a dirge outside of the funeral home after the service for the father of Derrick “Khabukey” Shezbie in late April.

Ja’Niya Dabney, 11, holds flowers she collected from the double funeral of her grandmother and great aunt who both died within three weeks of each other of covid-19 in April, 2020.

Willie Smith gets his hair cut by Carnell Wright, under the Claiborne overpass near Columbus Street after the barber shop Wright had been working at closed along with many businesses in the city due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. April 1, 2020.

Pro-bono housing lawyer Alexis Ekert hands a man a business card weeps in reaction to being evicted from a Motel 6 in New Orleans East on April 2, 2020.

Pastor Shawn Anglim, of First Grace United Methodist Church in New Orleans, lays down pieces of Eucharist on a table to minimize interaction during a live streamed service on March 15, 2020. Pastor Anglim decided that instead of canceling Sunday services, he would ask his congregation to stay home and watch it streamed live on Facebook. His sermon focused on finding ways to help others and checking on your friends and neighbors. "Suffering isn't the worst thing. Suffering alone is the worst thing," he said.

One single congregant showed up at First Grace United Methodist Church in New Orleans on Sunday March 15, 2020. Pastor Shawn Anglim decided that instead of canceling Sunday services, he would ask his congregation to stay home and watch it streamed live on Facebook.

One single congregant showed up at First Grace United Methodist Church in New Orleans on Sunday March 15, 2020. Pastor Shawn Anglim decided that instead of canceling Sunday services, he would ask his congregation to stay home and watch it streamed live on Facebook. At the time in the service when children would gather at the front, he sat near a pile of stuffed animals and held a photo of Zion Williamson attached to a puppet. “Zion is Nola,” pastor Anglim said. That week New Orleans Pelicans athlete Zion Williams had pledged to cover salaries of the Smoothie King Center workers. “Why did I invite Zion to be with us today? Zion did a beautiful thing. In a moment of great anxiety he figured out there was something he could do that was easy for him to do. When you have 10 million dollars sitting around why not give 5 million away, amen.”

Terryce Boseman, 16, Nili Boseman, 9, and their mother Dr. Erica M. Boseman pray during a televised church service on April 19, 2020.

Shanbriell Williams and her children, Caylie, 4 left, and Markhi, 7, stand in front of the apartment complex they were meant to move into last month on March 17, 2020. Williams used her tax refund to pay for the $950 deposit on the apartment she hoped to rent with the help of a section 8 voucher. The Housing Authority of New Orleans approved the apartment; it passed inspection, but there have been holdups and the agency began turning people away because of coronavirus scares before necessary lease paperwork was resolved. So now she and her children are living with her cousin, where they sleep on the floor of an apartment that is currently housing nine people in Gretna.

Raheem Jointer, 16, left, and his brother Nakhalen Jointer, 13, play video games while their cousin Caylie Bartholomew, 4, tries to sleep on March 17, 2017. Caylie, her brother Markhi Bartholomew, 7, and their mother Shanbriel Williams had been homeless, staying with their cousins in Harvey, Louisiana, due to delays in the notoriously dysfunctional housing authority in New Orleans, a problem compounded by the system nearly shut down due to the coronavirus. Six children and three adults were staying in the two bedroom apartment, with the children sharing the bed on the living room floor.

Shanbriell Williams rests her head on her arm as she makes food at her cousin's apartment in Gretna. She and her children, Caylie, 4, and Markhi, 7, had been living with her cousin, where they sleep on the floor of an apartment that is currently housing nine people in Gretna due to the housing authority in New Orleans shutting down at the start of the pandemic.

Nakhalen Jointer, 13, plays on his phone in an apartment inhabited by six children and three adults due to the housing authority shutting down at the start of the pandemic.

Shakuria Dawson rides in the trunk during MLK’s graduation parade on May 20, 2020.

Graduating senior Kwydell Journee is embraced by Martin Luther King Jr High School senior advisor Gloria Miles during their graduation parade in New Orleans in May. Kwydell was the Drum Captain and Snare Drum Section Leader for the MLK Marching Band.

Trevianne Turner rides on top of her sister's car during MLK’s graduation parade through the Lower Ninth Ward. Many lots still remain vacant and overgrown since faulty levees broke open onto the neighborhood 15 years ago, after Hurricane Katrina. “Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. What would it have been like without Katrina?’”

Troynique Turner, left, and Troy Green Jr. try to console their sister Trevianne, who had just found out that she was salutatorian of her graduating class over a Zoom call. She entered her senior year with grades so strong that she hoped to be the top scholar in her entire class. She landed a scholarship to Louisiana State University, where she’ll study pediatric nursing.

Kia Washington rides in MLK’s graduation parade in New Orleans on May 20, 2020.

Jarrin Rainey gets help with his gown from school staffer Danneka Mitchell just before his graduation ceremony at Frederick Douglass High School on May 21, 2020.

Terry Rogers holds a photo of her brother Michael Williams in front of her home in Bridge City, Louisiana on May 17, 2020. Michael had been serving a life sentence at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for a 1974 convenience store murder he had always maintained he did not commit. In May he contracted coronavirus while in prison and died. Terry and her family have fought for years to clear Michael's name and recently they had hope he would get out. Another convicted armed robber had confessed to the murder, and the state’s chief witness had changed his account repeatedly. The lead detective in the original investigation signed an affidavit saying he believes Williams was wrongly convicted and the Innocence Project took on his case this past year. When coronavirus came along, Michael’s lawyer and family made pleas to the prison to remove him from the dorm where he told his sister he bunked with more than 80 other men. He was never moved and even after he fell ill he was only isolated within the prison where Terry says he was given fluids, oxygen and a z-pack. By the time he was taken to the hospital, it was far too late.

Terry Rogers extends a hand in prayer over her brother Michael William's body as his son Michael Cooks stands at her side at Dennis Funeral Home in New Orleans on May 15, 2020.

Terry Rogers has a moment alone during the brief viewing of her brother Michael, before he is laid to rest in New Orleans on May 15, 2020.

Family and friends of Michael Williams attend his funeral service at West Lawn Cemetery.

A flower arrangement lies near Michael William's plot after his funeral at West Lawn Cemetery on May 18, 2020.

Laurie Holbrook holds her son Michael, 3, during a walk through their neighborhood in New Orleans. Three weeks ago, Laurie, who is a wound care nurse at Ochsner Health System's main campus, found out that someone she’s worked closely with had tested positive for COVID-19. At the time, Laurie thought her sinuses were plugged because of seasonal allergies and bronchitis. Then she spiked a fever, a classic symptom for the coronavirus. So she took a test for healthcare workers that offers results in 24 hours. She spent the next day alone, in what is now her half of the family’s double-shotgun house in New Orleans. She worries about unwittingly passing the virus to her family and has been struggling with when she should begin quarantining herself while the peak of the pandemic passes through New Orleans. "You took an oath to take care of people," she said. "You have a moral obligation. This was your duty, this is what you signed up to do, but I didn't — but my children didn't sign up to get sick. My husband didn't sign up to get sick."

Keith Newsome, left, Mike Williams, Keith Gibson, middle, and Shannon Brown, right, play spades on St. Bernard Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), April 7, 2020.

Protesters rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. on June 5, 2020.

Miles Pratt looks out to Lake Pontchartrain near a flooded Lakeshore Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., as Hurricane Sally churns in the gulf on September 15, 2020.

Jennie Elsperman, and he son Trevor, 18, talk with neighbors from their mobile home after Hurricane Sally left their yard flooded, at Perdido Key, Florida, U.S., on September 17, 2020.

Iyana Sells, 9, plays on her street which is still lined with debris from Hurricane Laura the day after Hurricane Delta swept through Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S., October 10, 2020.

Ed Zcmut, vice president of Terra Firma, a development firm in Perdido Key, Fla., attempts to salvage what he can Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, after Hurricane Sally destroyed the building the business was house in.

Misty Talley and Wade Kodrin decided to set up for drinks with their neighbors in front of a downed tree they also decorated, because the sidewalk where they would normally gather had a power line strewn across it, after Hurricane Zeta swept through New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. on October 29, 2020.

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