It began with 'Patient Zero' one long year ago
On Jan. 21, 2020, it was announced to the world that the United States had its first case of a new mysterious virus.
The night before, after a battery of lab tests, a 35-year-old Snohomish County resident was placed in deep isolation in an Everett hospital. He’d fallen ill four days after returning from Wuhan, China.
He became known as “Patient Zero” after a fateful test came back positive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
At the time, images of people sick and dying in China and a few other countries seemed so distant. There were less than a thousand cases of the mystery illness reported, hardly a pandemic.
Little did we know just how much the coronavirus would change our lives and take so many. Over 2 million people have died worldwide, the majority due to community spread.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/it-began-with-patient-zero-one-long-year-ago/
This was the first documented case in the U.S. They later found out an earlier one when an autopsy was done on a woman who had died in California.
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