On Jan. 19, 2020, a 35-year-old man showed up at an urgent-care clinic in Washington State, complaining of a cough and fever — symptoms that would soon worsen into what presented like a serious case of pneumonia. He'd just returned from Wuhan, China, where he had family. This man was the first U.S. case of Covid-19 . " We in the virology community had a serious 'I think we're fucked' moment in the first weeks of February 2020," says Eric Bortz, a University of Alaska-Anchorage virologist and public-health expert. The first Covid death in the U.S. is a matter of debate. In the early days of the pandemic , many doctors and medical examiners struggled to pin deaths on the newly-identified virus. But attributing deaths to Covid got easier as cases piled up. That was more than two years ago, and now a million Americans are dead from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. After several successive waves of infections from a series of variants of the basic pathogen, as well as a historic effort to develop new vaccines and therapies, cases and deaths are dropping almost everywhere. Covid is finally getting closer to "endemicity"— that is, the point where many officials consider… Read full this story
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