The pandemic's stark impact in photos

 Axios pulled paired images from the top Getty photos for a given month in 2019 compared to that same month in 2020.

Kurdish New Year in 2019 (left). Employees on lunch break in Wuhan in 2020. Photos: Micah Garen and STR/AFP via Getty Images

Protestors in Hong Kong in 2019 (left). Pilgrims circumambulating around the Kaaba in Mecca in 2020. Photos: Philip Fong/AFP and STR/AFP via Getty Images

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Thanks Bruce!