Raleigh photographer Abigail Chopel gave birth to her daughter in January 2020, just at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was a scary time, she recalled. She couldn’t get her daughter vaccinated until she was 2 years old. Chopel also worried about the health of her grandmother, who was living with them at the time.
“I felt I was at the mercy of my community doing the right thing,” said Chopel, 36, who also has a son who’s now 9 years old…