Oak Knoll Elementary School first graders sit on socially distanced markers on the ground at the end of recess before heading back to class on Sept. 29, 2020.

Esther Tebeka hugs her daughter, Rivka, 13, for the first time in six weeks after school outside South Peninsula Hebrew Day School in Sunnyvale on Feb. 12, 2020. Tebeka and another one of her daughters, Chaya, 15, had been traveling through Wuhan, China when the coronavirus outbreak started. The two were then quarantined for 14 days at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County when they returned to the U.S.

Ballerinas rehearse for their production of "The Rose and the Butterfly: A Love Story" at Bayer Ballet Academy in Mountain View on July 23, 2021.

Graduates sit socially distanced on the Viking Stadium field during graduation at Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto on June 2, 2021.

Dressed from head to toe in personal protective equipment, nurse Lynn Hudson brings a meal to a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at El Camino Health's Mountain View campus on Jan. 14, 2021.

A group of seniors tries to start a dance circle at the Menlo-Atherton High School outdoor prom on the campus' soccer field in Atherton on May 7, 2021.

Elizabeth McCarthy glues "protein spikes" made out of paper straws and pompoms onto her coronavirus piñatas in her Menlo Park home on April 26, 2021.

Parents watch their kindergarteners from a distance on the first day of the new school year at Laurel School in Atherton on Aug. 19, 2021.

Woodman tries to get his wife, Marty Woodman, who has Alzheimer's disease, to look at him through a fence as she is assisted by Linda Mittelstadt, activity director at Silver Oaks Memory Care, and Paula Trujillo, a caregiver, at the Menlo Park assisted living facility on April 15, 2020.

Worksite Labs medical assistant Daisy Valencia directs Woodside High School senior Diego Ruiz through a COVID-19 test at Woodside High School in Woodside on Jan. 10, 2022.

Customers fill Bistro Vida's outdoor tables for lunch in downtown Menlo Park on June 9, 2020.

Laura Forrest adjusts a plastic shower liner in front of her porch to separate herself from trick-or-treaters on Oct. 20, 2020, ahead of Halloween, when she planned to send candy down a chute she built in Palo Alto.

Three residents wave and clap from their balconies to thank Channing House staff for keeping them safe during the coronavirus pandemic at a staff appreciation event at the retirement community in Palo Alto on April 16, 2020.

In a nearly empty sanctuary, Lorena Cuffy films the Rev. Kaloma Smith offer a prayer between singers Larin Smith and Sandra Habtamu during University AME Zion Church's Easter service in Palo Alto on April 12, 2020. The service was live streamed at 9:25 a.m. on Easter Sunday and viewed about 900 times.

Mountain View High School football players stretch at the end of a conditioning practice on the high school's football field on June 24, 2020.

Marisa Cannon assures her son, Joey, 6, that it doesn't hurt to get her blood drawn by Alyssa Weaver, a second-year physician assistant student at Stanford School of Medicine, at a COVID-19 antibody testing site in Mountain View on April 4, 2020.

John Verducci receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from Anna Nohr, an El Camino Health licensed vocational nurse, at a vaccination site operated by El Camino Health in Sunnyvale on April 2, 2021.

A mural, based off of the U.S. Marines War Memorial, depicts a doctor and other essential workers hoisting the American flag in the front yard of a house in Mountain View on April 9, 2020.

Two VTA workers clean a bus at the nearly empty Mountain View train station on March 18, 2020.

A woman pushes her cart past empty shelves at Target in Mountain View on March 14, 2020.