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When 2020 passes into the history books, it will

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carry more superlatives in a high school yearbook and none

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of them good, most deadly, hottest, most

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stressful. Worst. It is not your imagination.

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By a host of measures, 2020 was the worst

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year many Americans will have experienced in their lifetimes.

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It was a year of loss of anxiety, of

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poverty and of disease. Recovering from that last 12

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months is likely to define the entire decade ahead.

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Americans will remember this year by the pandemic that has

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infected millions of friends, neighbors and family members as

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a publication. Nearly 18 million Americans have tested positive

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for the coronavirus, a number that is going by

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a quarter million a day.