As the world began to shut down, the overarching sentiment was things wouldn’t go on like this: Whether it was the president’s fanciful message about a two-week lockdown or public health experts’ vision of an escalating, focused campaign to beat back the virus, the situation was definitely going to keep changing, somehow. Instead, all the different optimistic visions were replaced by open-ended stasis, immense loss, and extreme isolation. Refrigerated trucks turned into disaster morgues sat on New York street corners last spring, while U-Hauls outside of a local funeral home housed the dead who couldn’t be preserved. Neither cohort could be honored or enshrined by loved ones.
Jerry Harris, star of Netflix’s ‘Cheer,’ pleads not guilty to federal child porn, sex charges
Harris was indicted on seven federal charges earlier this month after authorities accused him of asking Fort Worth minors for sexually explicit photos.
Jerry Harris attends the Build Series to discuss Cheer at Build Studio on Jan. 29, 2020 in New York City.(Jim Spellman / Getty Images)
Jeremiah “Jerry” Harris, star of the Netflix series “Cheer,” pleaded not guilty last week to federal child pornography and other sex charges.
Harris, 21, pleaded not guilty to seven charges in the Northern District of Illinois on Dec. 17 during an arraignment hearing held over the phone, court records show.
COVID’s ‘untold story’: Texas Blacks and Latinos are dying in the prime of their lives
The deaths have sweeping implications for Texas’ economy, for its higher education system and for a rapidly unfolding mental health crisis
Since his mother, Cecilia, and his fiancee, Blanca Leon (in framed photo), died of COVID-19, Claudio Sanchez has been caring for his and Blanca s sons Jose Ortiz, 14, Daniel Sanchez, 6, Claudio s sister, Celeste, 18, and three cousins who had lived with his mother and aunt: Elijah Sanchez, 7, Izaeyah Burkley, 8, and Aaliyah Sanchez, 9.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
Claudio Sanchez is facing his first Christmas without his fiancée, Blanca Leon; his mother, Cecilia; and Blanca’s father, Jose. All three died of COVID-19.