Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared a new, rapidly spreading respiratory virus to be a pandemic. Throughout the world, policy makers and ordinary people tried to prevent further spread of COVID-19 and protect themselves. Schools and businesses closed. Hospitals became overrun with critically ill patients. People donned home-sewn masks and stood six feet apart in public.

While physically distancing themselves, the pulmonary hypertension community came together in mind and spirit. They shared tips to make masks, tie-dye masks, donate masks. They recounted ideas for coping, vacation and masking up with oxygen.

The Pulmonary Hypertension Association captured those stories and more. Read on to revisit eight accounts of how the PH community adapted to the pandemic: