This thread is dedicated to those saying we aren't seeing images of the reality of COVID-19 in hospitals across the U.S.

This is not an exhaustive list but I wanted to highlight the stories @reuterspictures photographers bring to light.

Photo by Callaghan O'Hare in Houston
In April in New York, @andrewkellyfoto showed the grim reality that a Harlem funeral home faced on another front line of the pandemic.

Full story: https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/dealing-with-the-dead-the-female-undertakers-of-harlem
As the country reached, 100,000 deaths we highlighted the story of Jose Holguin as his family grieved their loss.

Photo by @andrewkellyfoto

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-grief/a-young-woman-makes-covid-19-warning-her-dads-final-gift-to-the-world-idUSKBN22Y1AU
As New York bore the early brunt of the pandemic and access inside hospitals was difficult, photographers stayed outside them to provide a window into what healthcare workers were going through.

Photos by @JeenahM and @andrewkellyfoto
As New York bore the early brunt of the pandemic and access inside hospitals was difficult, photographers stayed outside them to provide a window into what healthcare workers were going through.Photos by @JeenahM and @andrewkellyfoto
As New York bore the early brunt of the pandemic and access inside hospitals was difficult, photographers stayed outside them to provide a window into what healthcare workers were going through.Photos by @JeenahM and @andrewkellyfoto
In images that shocked the world, @Lucas_Jackson_ documented the mass burials on New York's Hart Island.

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hart-island/new-york-city-hires-laborers-to-bury-dead-in-hart-island-potters-field-amid-coronavirus-surge-idUSKCN21R398
In images that shocked the world, @Lucas_Jackson_ documented the mass burials on New York's Hart Island.Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hart-island/new-york-city-hires-laborers-to-bury-dead-in-hart-island-potters-field-amid-coronavirus-surge-idUSKCN21R398
In images that shocked the world, @Lucas_Jackson_ documented the mass burials on New York's Hart Island.Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hart-island/new-york-city-hires-laborers-to-bury-dead-in-hart-island-potters-field-amid-coronavirus-surge-idUSKCN21R398
Refrigerated, and sometimes not refrigerated, makeshift morgues were documented outside hospitals and funeral homes across New York.

Photos by @Lucas_Jackson_ and Brendan McDermid
Refrigerated, and sometimes not refrigerated, makeshift morgues were documented outside hospitals and funeral homes across New York.Photos by @Lucas_Jackson_ and Brendan McDermid
Refrigerated, and sometimes not refrigerated, makeshift morgues were documented outside hospitals and funeral homes across New York.Photos by @Lucas_Jackson_ and Brendan McDermid
Refrigerated, and sometimes not refrigerated, makeshift morgues were documented outside hospitals and funeral homes across New York.Photos by @Lucas_Jackson_ and Brendan McDermid
As the hotspot spread to Texas, @callaghanohare regularly photographed inside Houston's United Memorial Medical Center.
It was in that Houston hospital that Callaghan, and other photographers, documented Dr. Varon and his team.

Full story: https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/i-cannot-save-everybody-houston-doctor-fights-newest-covid-19-surge
It was in that Houston hospital that Callaghan, and other photographers, documented Dr. Varon and his team.Full story: https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/i-cannot-save-everybody-houston-doctor-fights-newest-covid-19-surge
It was in that Houston hospital that Callaghan, and other photographers, documented Dr. Varon and his team.Full story: https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/i-cannot-save-everybody-houston-doctor-fights-newest-covid-19-surge
On the South Side of Chicago in April, Shannon Stapleton photographed registered nurse Paula Johnson inside the intensive care unit of Roseland Community Hospital
Eight months later, Shannon returned to Roseland where he met Florence Bolton. She died less than 24 hours after he documented her FaceTime call with her family.

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-chicago/in-chicago-a-community-mourns-a-grandmother-lost-to-covid-19-idUSKBN28P1LZ
Eight months later, Shannon returned to Roseland where he met Florence Bolton. She died less than 24 hours after he documented her FaceTime call with her family.Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-chicago/in-chicago-a-community-mourns-a-grandmother-lost-to-covid-19-idUSKBN28P1LZ
Eight months later, Shannon returned to Roseland where he met Florence Bolton. She died less than 24 hours after he documented her FaceTime call with her family.Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-chicago/in-chicago-a-community-mourns-a-grandmother-lost-to-covid-19-idUSKBN28P1LZ
Hospital housekeeper Evelia De La Cruz cleans up after the COVID-19 deaths at Roseland.

"Every day I went to work, even on my days off, because I know that the patients need me, the hospital and the country needs me," she said.

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/the-country-needs-me-cleaner-in-chicagos-idUSRTX8FGB0
As the country hit 200,000 deaths, Angelica Mendez farewelled her mother Catalina Salazar inside a Houston Covid ward.

Photo by @callaghanohare

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-grief/as-u-s-covid-19-deaths-near-200000-a-nation-grapples-with-grief-idUSKCN26C13A
Dr. Zafia Anklesaria, who was seven months pregnant in this @lucy_nicholson photo from May, continued to care for COVID-19 patients in L.A.

Full story: https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-pregnant-doctor-navigates-covid-19-fight-in-low-income-la
Viewed through a medical center window in New Mexico, nurse Carolina Garcia took care of her father Jose Garcia.

Photos by @PaulRatje

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/new-mexico-hospital-nurse-cares-for-her-idUSRTX8D0BF
Viewed through a medical center window in New Mexico, nurse Carolina Garcia took care of her father Jose Garcia.Photos by @PaulRatje Full story: https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/new-mexico-hospital-nurse-cares-for-her-idUSRTX8D0BF
Viewed through a medical center window in New Mexico, nurse Carolina Garcia took care of her father Jose Garcia.Photos by @PaulRatje Full story: https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/new-mexico-hospital-nurse-cares-for-her-idUSRTX8D0BF
Rural hospitals weren't spared the virus. Photographer Go Nakamura went inside Medical Arts Hospital in Lamesa, Texas, to show their struggle.

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/rural-texas-doctors-left-out-in-cold-on-idUSRTX8GX4T
Healthcare workers in rural Kansas hospitals said "we're drowning".

Photo by @callaghanohare

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-hospitals/were-drowning-covid-cases-flood-hospitals-in-americas-heartland-idUSKBN2841K3
Inside and outside hospitals, photographers focused on healthcare workers.

Photos by @callaghanohare
Inside and outside hospitals, photographers focused on healthcare workers.Photos by @callaghanohare
Inside and outside hospitals, photographers focused on healthcare workers.Photos by @callaghanohare
The emotional toll of the death of a patient evident on the face of Gabriel Cervera as he notifies the family.

Photos by @callaghanohare
The emotional toll of the death of a patient evident on the face of Gabriel Cervera as he notifies the family. Photos by @callaghanohare
The emotional toll of the death of a patient evident on the face of Gabriel Cervera as he notifies the family. Photos by @callaghanohare
The emotional toll of the death of a patient evident on the face of Gabriel Cervera as he notifies the family. Photos by @callaghanohare
Here, an El Paso County Sheriff's Officer tries to block photographs from being taken as bodies are moved to refrigerated trailers.

Photo by @i_p_a_1

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-texas/el-paso-texas-calls-in-ten-morgue-trucks-as-coronavirus-cases-surge-idUSKBN27P2VY
All of these photos come at a risk to the photographers but they want to ensure there is visual evidence of how the pandemic spread and devastated the nation.

Photographers Shannon Stapleton in Chicago and @lucy_nicholson in L.A.
All of these photos come at a risk to the photographers but they want to ensure there is visual evidence of how the pandemic spread and devastated the nation.Photographers Shannon Stapleton in Chicago and @lucy_nicholson in L.A.
All of these photos come at a risk to the photographers but they want to ensure there is visual evidence of how the pandemic spread and devastated the nation.Photographers Shannon Stapleton in Chicago and @lucy_nicholson in L.A.
This is not an exhaustive list and only highlights @reuterspictures
Images documenting the grim toll are also being produced by @AP_Images @GettyImagesNews @AFPphoto @nytimesphoto @sfchronicle @stltoday @washingtonpost @TIME and many others
If you aren't seeing these photos, check where you are getting your news.

Full gallery of these @reuterspictures images https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/pictures-of-the-year-americas-coronaviru-idUSRTX8ENHL
Pictures of the year: America's coronavirus outbreak | Pictures | Reuters

Dr. Joseph Varon, 58, the chief medical officer at United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC), hugs Christina Mathers, 43, a nurse from his team who became infected with COVID-19, at UMMC in Houston, Texas

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/pictures-of-the-year-americas-coronaviru-idUSRTX8ENHL
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