How the global coronavirus pandemic unfolded

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At one million deaths and growing, COVID-19 has taken a terrible toll across the planet

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Dec. 31, 2019: China alerts the World Health Organization of 27 cases of “viral pneumonia” in the central city of Wuhan. Authorities shut down a wet market in Wuhan the next day, after discovering some patients were vendors or dealers.

Feb. 7: Li Wenliang, a Chinese ophthalmologist who had been reprimanded for issuing an early warning about the Wuhan outbreak, dies, triggering wide public mourning and rare expressions of anger against the government.Feb. 19: A spike in infections in South Korea linked to a church congregation is declared a “super-spreading event.”Feb. 22: Italy seals off its hard-hit northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto.Feb. 25: The U.S.

March 3: In a surprise move, the U.S. Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by half a percentage point to try to stem the economic damage. Markets continue to fall.Story continues below advertisement March 12: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 48, goes into quarantine for two weeks after his wife, Sophie, tests positive.

March 20: California issues an unprecedented state-wide “stay at home order” and New York closes non-essential businesses. April 7: Early data shows COVID-19 is killing African Americans at a higher rate than the general U.S. population, underscoring disparities in healthcare access.April 10: Global deaths reaches 100,000 and confirmed cases exceed 1.6 million.

May 4: J. Crew Group Inc files for bankruptcy protection after temporary store closures cost it almost $900 million in sales. In the following weeks, Neiman Marcus Group and J.C. Penney Co Inc would also be pushed to the brink. May 18: Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive medicine despite medical warnings against the use of the malaria drug. Subsequent studies, including a large multi-country trial by the WHO, find little benefit to COVID-19 patients treated with the drug.May 25: George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American, dies after a police officer kneels on his neck for nearly 9 minutes.

July 25: Britain imposes a two-week quarantine on travelers from Spain, throwing Europe’s summer reopening into disarray.

 

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Via MSM of course. There is NO pandemic.

Well I suggest that all of you hold on to your hats because this is far from being over.

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