For many citizens of the world, the year 2020 will live in infamy. The COVID-19 virus has infected more than 75 million people and taken the lives of over one million worldwide. In the United States, the situation has been particularly dire with the virus claiming the lives of more than 300,000 Americans. The pandemic has upended people’s day-to-day routines, eliminated jobs, and left many households facing financial hardship. The world has waited anxiously as virologists worked at record speed to produce a vaccine capable of ending the pandemic. Amid the turmoil of COVID-19, the senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and other Black Americans catalyzed protests across the United States and spotlighted police brutality, systemic racism, and the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on people of color.