'Almost like an eternity': 3 months since US confirmed its first coronavirus case, what have we learned?

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The U.S. confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on Jan. 21. It's been three long months. A look at what we've learned and where we are going.

Three months ago Tuesday, the U.S. confirmed the nation's first case of what was then called the"novel" coronavirus – a Washington state man in his 30s who had recently returned from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of a seemingly distant illness that had killed six people.

We're holding"Happy Birthday" signs from afar and camping out in lawn chairs outside nursing homes. We're saying wedding vows over Zoom and on sidewalks. Prom dresses are gathering dust. Graduation ceremonies are going virtual. We're dumping milk, smashing eggs and burying onions. We're standing 6 feet away at the checkout line – and may need to be standing even farther.

"The canvas that we call COVID-19 was blank 14 weeks ago. It’s been an amazing thing to see the amount of knowledge that has been generated. It has never before been done in human history," Poland said. The U.S. was slow to ramp up coronavirus testing nationwide. The CDC initially limited who should be tested for the virus and shipped flawed test kits to state and county public health labs. Hospital and private commercial labs did not get the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory green light until the end of February.

"I don't think we’ve come close to picking up 1 in 10 people. Using antibodies – those are going to be the watershed moments. That will tell us about the prevalence, and the true mortality. And that will help paint the picture of what we do next as a society," Mina said. "Some of the most interesting things we’ll find out are going to happen in the next couple weeks."

"We don't know if this virus will result in sterilizing immunity – that, if I breathe in the virus, my body just entirely kills it off before it has the chance to replicate. Seasonal viruses don't usually lead to that, or to lifelong immunity," Mina said.

 

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