An Ominous Week In California â Followed By A Year Of Unimaginable Loss
the sign displayed at the first coronavirus news conference last March in Ukiah, California.
Dan Kennedy/GBH News
Sometime in the evening on Thursday, March 5, 2020, I settled in at the bar of the Crush Italian Steakhouse in Ukiah, California. Iâd had a long day of interviews, driving out to the Pacific coast and back through the redwood forests of Mendocino County, and I wanted dessert, a glass of wine and a chance to decompress.
Throughout the week, the news about the novel coronavirus had been getting more ominous. Flights were being canceled, and I told my wife I was concerned about making it home. But at that early stage of what would become a worldwide pandemic, I wasnât worried about getting sick â not even when a half-dozen laughing, inebriated young women pressed up behind me.
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