10 Surprising Things We ve Learned About the Coronavirus
A year into the pandemic, we now know a lot more about the virus that causes COVID-19
by Michelle Crouch, AARP, March 8, 2021 |
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En español | Remember wearing gloves and wiping down groceries to stay safe from the coronavirus? Thinking that COVID-19 would be no worse than a case of the flu? Or believing the pandemic would be gone by summer?
A year after the U.S. declared a national emergency on March 13, 2020, we now know that many of our early assumptions about the new coronavirus that rapidly swept the globe were wrong.
DAVID WAHLBERG
A cascade of coronavirus cases and cancellations washed over Wisconsin and the Madison area a year ago this week, upending life for everyone and ushering in a state of physical distancing, economic downturn and unprecedented deaths for which the end may be near but remains unclear.
At the beginning of the second week of March last year, the state had reported only one case of COVID-19, a Dane County resident who tested positive more than a month earlier after returning from China. A second case was confirmed that Monday and a third on Tuesday. By Friday, March 13, the total was 19 cases, suggesting community spread, first suspected in the U.S. near Seattle, may have come here.
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Several Texas colleges and universities will still require people to wear face masks after Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he will lift the statewide mask mandate, according to the Texas Tribune.
Schools that will continue to require face masks include The University of Texas at Austin, Baylor University, Southern Methodist University, Rice University and the Texas A&M University System.
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