Where The US Is One Year After First COVID Case Confirmed
KEY POINTS
The severity of the situation was routinely discounted
The global death toll is fast approaching the 2 million mark
Thursday marks one year since scientists confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the United States. Described as a mysterious new virus at the time, the infection has led to a global pandemic that triggered an unprecedented breakthrough in vaccine development but left nearly 2 million people dead and pushed the global economy deep into recession.
“A male patient carrying the mysterious respiratory virus is currently at a medical center in Everett, Washington,” International Business Times noted on Jan. 21, 2020. “The virus, which was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, has killed six people and sickened 300 others in China.”