By the beginning of May 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 75,000 persons in the United States, forced millions of businesses to shut down, devastated the budgets and hopes of countless families, closed campuses and schools, and changed the lives of most Americans in ways that were unimaginable a few short months before. Our team, through extensive interviews, participatory action research, and photo-elicitation, documented the lived experience of workers, students, and health care professionals in the early stages of the pandemic, assessed how people made sense of the health risks related to the virus, and examined the measures they took to persevere during a time of social isolation and uncertainty.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Steven Gordon
• Walsh, Cameron
• Madeline Blake
• Jillian Spera
• Sarah Huber
• Klosner, Adam
• Louis Duh
• Emma Bennet
• Mia DiBattista
• Wetmore, Amanda
• Skinner, Connor
• Ryan Michaud
• Ardhaldjian, Ardavasd
• Robert Peralta
• Kyria Nelson
• Hannah Schulz
• Olivia Madamba
• Samuel Furtado
• Noah Roberts
• Hannah Grace Gallagher
• Brown, Alia
• Erica Claire Houghton
• Olivia Hauber
• Craigie, Connor

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-051320-222208

Keyword

• Social and Human Services

Advisor

• Hersh, Robert
• Belz, Melissa

Year

• 2020

Date created

• 2020-05-13

Related url

•  https://wp.wpi.edu/covidcollection/

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-03-03