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Countries across the globe were already feeling the effects of the novel coronavirus in the early months of 2020. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency Jan. 30. The first COVID-19 death in the United States was reported Feb. 29.
But March is when everything changed, with WHO announcing March 11 that the world was in the grips of a pandemic.
Healthcare workers in Washington state put a patient into an ambulance Feb. 29, 2020, at Life Care Center of Kirkland, where dozens of staffers and residents were exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms.
(David Ryder / Getty Images)
MARCH 2020
March 9: Italy places itself on a nationwide quarantine to slow the spread of coronavirus. The Dow Jones industrial average plunges more than 2,000 points.