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The NPR stories that hit home in 2020 explain the complicated reality of life during a pandemic. They highlight moments of grace, surprise and persistence – and sometimes, stark disagreement.

Angela Smith can’t access her email – she has no computer, no tablet, no high-cost data plan and the library’s closed. Smith, 48, is taking care of her 74-year-old mother, Minnie, in the Cedar Extension High-Rise senior apartments on East 30th Street, a Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority building just down the street from Cleveland’s main post office. Angela has Type 2 diabetes and Minnie has rheumatoid arthritis in her hands, feet and hips.

When the coronavirus hit, thousands of unsheltered people in the state were moved into hotels under a plan known as "Project Roomkey." Now many are ending up back on the street.

The ambient composer and Brian Eno collaborator died this week at the age of 84 from complications brought on by COVID-19.

Everyone is trying to figure out how relationships work in the pandemic. That includes a couple keeping their love alive, ever since their group homes for adults with disabilities went into lockdown.

They are working to contact those who had been in close proximity to the president, the first lady and others who traveled with him in recent days to get tested.

Google and Apple teamed up on using smartphones to track coronavirus infections. But the systems are only available in a few states, where they're being used by a tiny percentage of the population.

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a legal firebrand and a cultural icon. She was also a close friend of NPR Correspondent Nina Totenberg, who offers this remembrance.

They met and fell in love while working for a nonprofit in his country. He came to visit her in the Netherlands. Because of the pandemic, the visit lasted seven months. Would love conquer all?

President Trump commissioned Rudy Giuliani as his top guy for Ukraine, and the White House also appointed "three amigos" to carry out its policy. The administration says nothing's wrong here.