One year later: From the first doctor to treat a COVID patient to an empty COVID-19 unit
and last updated 2021-03-03 23:45:57-05
Just over a year ago, the city of Everett in Washington saw the first diagnosed U.S. case of COVID-19.
âWe got a call from the CDC saying that we had the first patient in the U.S. with COVID, and that they wanted us to admit him to our hospital,â Dr. George Diaz, section chief for infectious diseases at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, said.
Diaz never could have imagined he would be the one to treat the first confirmed U.S. case of COVID-19.