Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announces that the county has declared a local state of disaster for public health emergency in the county, due to more cases of the new coronavirus, on March 12.
At right is Dr. Philip Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP) What a year.
We have seen pandemics before; we have seen social upheaval, and we have seen contentious elections. But all at once? Not in recent memory.
So how, in a year like this, how do you choose a single “biggest story of the year”? You don’t, of course. Because all of these stories played into and off of each other as the days turned into months.