Fewer jobs, more wine: California’s deadly COVID year in 9 charts

On March 19, 2020 Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a statewide shelter-in-place order. In response to an unprecedented public health threat, it was an equally unprecedented shuttering of day-to-day life. “This is not a permanent state,” Newsom assured us at the time. “This is a moment in time. And we will meet this moment together.”

On Friday, that moment will have stretched — and stretched and stretched — into a year.