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| New York City, 2015 |
Gus Garcia-Roberts, Erin Mansfield, and Caroline
Anders provide a very detail account of the history of COVIS19 in the United
States, Dec. 11, 2020. It is very well
illustrated with lots of fancy insets.
The title is “American Virus: It may not have started here, but the novel coronavirus became a U.S. tragedy”.
The article starts out by noting many more specific
infections and even deaths in the United States as early as December 2019. The death in California Feb 6 of a woman who
had exposure to people who traveled from China, to a heart rupture, is
mentioned.
It also notes the incredible volume of flights from
China, especially Wuhan, to the rest of the world, including the US West Coast.
But the East Coast was seeded a lot by flights from Europe, especially Italy.
The article notes how the virus percolated for at least
three months in the United States, before life “as we know it” suddenly caved
in, during the middle of March 2020. People had no concept of how mitigation would
be handled and how many lives would be crushed permanently.
The article follows one particular family in Chicago
in detail.
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