Top 10 stories of 2020: Pandemic, shootings, wildfires hit Clark County by The Columbian The SARS-COV-2 virus is incredibly small, but the reverberations of its impact on humanity dominated the events of 2020 and will linger for years. There was never any question that the novel coronavirus pandemic is The Columbian’s — and the world’s — top story of 2020. Clark County’s first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, was reported on March 7. Since then, it has sickened more than 12,000 people and taken the lives of more than 135 people. It has shuttered businesses, reinvented learning and upended nearly every aspect of Clark County life.