Dr. Mark Anderson, an infectious disease specialist at CHI Memorial, has spent his entire career preparing for – and worrying about – when a pandemic might strike.
“It’s just terrifying, absolutely terrifying,” Anderson told the Times Free Press in 2018 – 100 years since the Spanish flu, the most infamous pandemic of the last century.
“Can that happen again? I certainly would not say anything is impossible,” he said at the time.
Sunday marks six months since the coronavirus pandemic reached Hamilton County. In the 26 weeks that followed, thousands of people lost their jobs, at least 84 people have died and life in Chattanooga has changed dramatically.
As the virus continues to impact all parts of life, the Times Free Press compiled photographs and revisited some of the biggest stories throughout the past six months.