Like the photographs in the magazine, much of the video footage was taken by the people on the front lines themselves. To accompany this issue, working with creativity and caution, our team created six rich videos told from the point of view of those immersed in the fight against this pandemic. With TIME’s offices closed, working remotely has presented a host of obstacles, not the least of which includes creating video that is normally made with access to on-site servers and equipment. “I want our story to be told from us directly.” “I really want our voices to be heard,” Kim says. We also asked photographer turned paramedic Danny Kim to document his harrowing experience over the course of a week responding to likely COVID-19 patients in New Jersey. National correspondent Charlotte Alter spent a shift with Yonkers, N.Y., paramedic Alanna Badgley, and veteran war photographer Christopher Morris documented the overwhelming work of coroner Michael Fowler in Albany, Ga. While frontline workers face significant danger in their work, reporting alongside them brings its own set of challenges. They are what influence looks like today. Inside, you’ll find their stories and those of dozens more around the world, often in their own words and illustrated with their own photographs. On the cover, we feature five courageous individuals from across different regions. Keep up to date on the growing threat to global health by signing up for our daily coronavirus newsletter. Meanwhile, the kinds of international collaboration that have helped lead the world through previous crises are virtually absent.Īnd so this fight is being waged in large measure by frontline responders, from the medical workers risking their lives to the delivery people and pharmacy employees who aren’t able to stay in their homes to the coroners who are confronting wartime body counts. Though some in politics and business have risen to the occasion, and some countries-like Taiwan and South Korea-have managed to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, many governments around the globe have been on their heels, ignoring years of warnings about the threat of pandemic and then wasting precious time in fighting this virus’s spread. Yet today, even the most powerful people in our society are at the mercy of a virus that knows no rank and no title. TIME reports on the people who shape the world, and the cover often features the most influential among them: heads of state, titans of industry, icons of culture.
Most weeks, deciding what to put on our cover is the subject of great internal debate.
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