The document highlights several hopeful images from 2020 that provided moments of joy during a difficult year. These included: 1) The first person receiving the COVID-19 vaccine in the UK, healthcare workers celebrating nurses, and a patient being reunited with his brother after battling COVID-19. 2) People around the world finding ways to connect and entertain themselves and others during lockdowns, such as dancing at home, performing music from balconies, and drive-in concerts. 3) Acts of kindness like delivering supplies to vulnerable communities, volunteering at food banks, and donkey therapy for healthcare workers.

1. Hopeful Images From 2020

2. Hopeful Images From 2020

3. Margaret Keenan, 90, is applauded by staff as
she returns to her ward after becoming the
first person in Britain to receive the Pfizer /
BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at University
Hospital, at the start of the largest ever
immunization program in British history, in
Coventry, England, on December 8, 2020.
Jacob King via Reuters

4. Maria Sole, age 4, dressed in a nurse's outfit, holds up a rainbow
drawing with the words 'Thank You' on it as NHS staff and
members of the public took part in the weekly "Clap for Our
Carers" event at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital on May 28,
2020, in London, England. Dan Kitwood / Getty

5. Nurses and healthcare workers gesture with hearts in celebration of Nurse
Week and International Nurses Day outside Mt. Sinai Oueens in the Queens
borough of New York City on May 12, 2020. Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty

6. Dr. Lucia Ledesma, a clinical neuropsychologist,
eyes her pet Harley, a therapy dog who provides
emotional support for health-care workers who
are treating patients infected with the new
coronavirus, while he rests on his bed in Mexico
City on September 12, 2020. Marco Ugarte / AP

7. Regina Teodoro and Hilario Teodoro practice ballroom dancing during self-isolation at their home in St. Clair, in Sydney, Australia, on April 28, 2020. Lisa Maree Williams / Getty

8. Uruguayan cellist Karina Núñez performs for her neighbors on the
balcony of her apartment during the coronavirus outbreak in Panama
City, Panama, on March 20, 2020. Erick Marciscano / Reuters

9. Members of the Tempero de Criola band
perform amid the coronavirus pandemic at the
Turano favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June
19, 2020. Silvia Izquierdo / AP

10. Coronavirus-crisis volunteer Rhiannon Navin greets
local residents arriving at a food-distribution center at
the WestCOP community center in New Rochelle, New
York, on March 18, 2020. John Moore / Getty

11. Volunteer Jawad Javed delivers coronavirus protection kits that he and his wife put together for the vulnerable people of their community
in Stenhousemuir, between Glasgow and Edinburgh, in Scotland, on March 16, 2020. Andy Buchanan / Digital / AFP / Getty

12. Paulino Perez (right) hugs his brother Isaias Perez Yanez, as Isaias is released from Sharp Coronado Hospital
after battling COVID-19 for five weeks in Coronado, California, on May 8, 2020. Mario Tama / Getty

13. A worker holds a bottle of the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as the mass public vaccination program
gets underway at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, England, on December 8, 2020 Graeme Robertson via AP

14. A seal took several tourists by surprise by hitching a ride on their stand-up boards at the beach in Weymouth, England, on August 13, 2020. Finnbarr Webster / Getty

15. People roller skate during a pop-up roller
skating session in Brooklyn on September
5, 2020. Stephanie Keith / Getty

16. Concert-goers attend the first drive-in open-air musical show at an airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 30, 2020. Ishara S. Kodikara / AFP / Getty

17. Mark Ingram II of the Baltimore Ravens hugs his daughters before the AFC Divisional Playoff game against the
Tennessee Titans at M&T Bank Stadium on January 11, 2020, in Baltimore, Maryland. Maddie Meyer / Getty

18. Findik, the mascot of Kayacik Martyr Haluk Yilmaz Primary School in Tokay, Turkey, sits with desk mates during class on January 16, 2020. Mehmet Kumcagiz / Anadolu Agency via Getty

19. John Sileo, Wantagh High School Class of 2020
Co-President poses in front of a sign on the
grass as graduating Seniors from Wantagh High
School drive by the front of the school and
their teachers cheer for them on May 15, 2020,
in Wantagh, New York. Al Bello / Getty

20. A couple share a kiss at the "Purple Rain" installation at the Lycée Jacques-Decour on August 2, 2020, in Paris, France. Kiran Ridley / Getty

21. Children look at lights from inside their family car as they visit Luminna Fest, a drive-through
Christmas light festival, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 5, 2020. Amanda Perobelli / Reuters

22. Cristina Marino, a health worker at the Juan Ramon Jimenez
Hospital in Huelva, and coordinator of the El Burrito Feliz (The
Happy Donkey) association, hugs a donkey named Magallanes
in Hinojos, Spain, on September 8, 2020, as part of a donkey-
therapy program. Created by Luis Manuel Bejarano, the
emotional therapy is being used to treat the stress of health-
care workers who have been dealing with the coronavirus
pandemic. Cristina Quicler / AFP / Getty

23. Rita Nunes, a bride, is seen on her wedding day, after
having to cancel the event previously due to the
lockdown, posing in the autumn sunlight for a
wedding photographer in Dublin, Ireland, on October
14, 2020. Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters

24. Linda Delk (right) puts a ring on the finger of Ardell
Hoveskeland as Pastor Sarah Scherschligt looks on during
their socially distanced wedding, as family and friends
joined over Zoom, at the Peace Lutheran Church in
Alexandria, Virginia. "You may remove your mask and
kiss the bride." The two septuagenarians, who met at the
start of the pandemic, were wed on May 28, 2020.
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty

25. An orphan plays with her new Hula-Hoop during a food-
and-toy-distribution event for about 500 orphans in 11
orphanages, conducted by the National Muslim COVID-19
Response Committee, to celebrate Eid al-Fitr at the Good
Hope Markazil Banatil Islamia Orphans Center in Nairobi,
Kenya, on May 25, 2020. Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP / Getty

26. Joanne Collins Brock, a second grade teacher at St Francis School (Goshen), teaches online in
her empty classroom on April 15, 2020, in Goshen, Kentucky. Andy Lyons / Getty

27. Fans watch from their numbered seats as the German band Brings performs onstage during the Bonn Live Kulturgarten Open-
Air Festival 2020, at Rheinaue Leisure Park in Bonn, Germany, on July 17, 2020. Andreas Rentz / Getty

28. A helper holds a small fawn found on May 19, 2020 in the grass of a meadow near the
small Bavarian village of Oberacker near Munich, Germany. Christof Stache / AFP / Getty

29. A person dressed in a Spider-Man costume strikes a pose at the “Ceu na Terra,” or
Heaven on Earth, street party in Rio de Janeiro, on February 22, 2020. Leo Correa / AP

30. Three women wearing novelty masks with beard prints take a selfie on Queen Street in Cardiff, Wales, on August 4, 2020. Matthew Horwood / Getty

31. Inas, a student who is blind, embraces "Soul" during a dog-assisted therapy
session at Escola Iris in Sant Vicenc dels Horts, during the coronavirus
pandemic near Barcelona, Spain, on November 25, 2020. Albert Gea / Reuters

32. Neonatal Nurse Kirsty Hartley carries premature baby Theo Anderson to
his mother Kirsty Anderson in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the
Lancashire Women and Newborn Center at Burnley General Hospital in
East Lancashire, Burnley, England, on May 15, 2020. Hannah Mckay /
Reuters

33. Heart-shaped lights glow from the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel in San Diego, California, on April 16, 2020. Daniel Knighton / Getty

34. Italian violinist Fiamma Flavia Paolucci performs at Tor Vergata
Hospital in Rome on May 12, 2020, as the world marked
International Nurses Day. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty

35. This has been a year like no other, and moments of joy were were
difficult to come by. The few happy events that took place did so
despite harrowing circumstances—or, in many cases, as a response to
overwhelming adversity. Health-care workers took on enormous
burdens, saved countless lives, and earned the gratitude and
admiration of millions.
The following are images from the past year of personal victories, families
and friends at play, expressions of love and compassion, volunteers at
work, or simply small and pleasant moments.
All images and texts from The Atlantic.Thank you

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