Year of COVID: How the Pandemic Changed Life as We Know It in SoCal PUBLISHED 9:15 AM PT Mar. 08, 2021 PUBLISHED 9:15 AM PST Mar. 08, 2021 SHARE This story is part of Spectrum News' special reporting on the coronavirus pandemic in Southern California. Join us at 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 11, for "A Year of COVID" on Spectrum News 1 or the Spectrum News app. LOS ANGELES — COVID-19 cases are diminishing. More of us are getting vaccinated. Restaurants could soon return to indoor service. And toilet paper is back to its pre-pandemic status as a common grocery item that no longer needs to be hoarded. But as we approach the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring coronavirus a pandemic, Southern California's daily life is almost unrecognizable from what it once was. So let's look back to see how we even got here.