For two years now, life has been disrupted in ways no one could have imagined when the world began shutting down in March 2020 as a worrisome new virus erupted into a pandemic.

Through closures and reopenings, mandates and moratoriums, variants and vaccines, here are some of the key events that have affected the lives of Southern Californians.

The background of each slide is a chart, with the red area representing California’s daily new cases (using a seven-day average) for the time period covered.

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