March 2021 marked a year since the COVID-19 crisis began to dominate our lives. To mark that milestone, reporters from WFYI, Side Effects Public Media and IPB News are producing a series of non-narrated features that reflect on the pandemic's impact in Indiana and across the Midwest.

It's been a year of living through the COVID-19 pandemic in Indiana. When the Stay-At-Home orders went into effect in 2020, we brought you the stories of essential workers outside of health care who have also put themselves at risk in order to do their jobs. We checked back in with them about their lives one year later.

It's been a year of living through the COVID-19 pandemic in Indiana. When the Stay-At-Home orders went into effect in 2020, we brought you the stories of essential workers outside of health care who have also put themselves at risk in order to do their jobs. We checked back in with them about their lives -- one year later.

April Hendrickson is a resource nurse at University Hospital and Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She spoke with Side Effect's Public Media's Darian Benson about how she found strength in her faith while working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It's been a year of living through the COVID-19 pandemic in Indiana. Throughout it, many front-line workers confronted personal fears to keep schools and businesses running. Melissa Rose from Valparaiso was one of them, working both as a bus driver and as a personal shopper for the grocery delivery app, Instacart.

If some of your students don't stay, how do you afford to continue for the ones that need you? Child care provider Amber Gritter managed to do that during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is part of her story.

For the past year, Dr. Lauren Graham has been the COVID-19 coordinator at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center in Grinnell, Iowa. She spoke to Side Effects Public Medias Natalie Krebs about what shes learned one year into the pandemic.

Agatha Walston, a registered nurse at a long-term care facility in Louisville, was on the front lines when the pandemic hit.

As part of WFYI's series this month marking a year of pandemic, this reflection from President and CEO at Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana John Elliott explores the year in food assistance.

In June, Mayra Ramirez became the first U.S. COVID-19 patient to undergo the life-saving procedure. She spoke with Side Effects Public Media about what shes been through in the past year.