Before the covid pandemic hit, I met up with some of my friends at Vintage Pizzeria on January 20, 2020, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  We got to eat pizza and play bingo.  We all talked about how things were going in life.  I also got to meet a new friend.  I had a fun time hanging out with my friends.

It is said that covid started in bats.  The virus might have also come from an open market.  Covid was first discovered in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.  I first heard about covid at the end of February 2020 when my parents told me about it.  I heard covid was a deadly virus that could possibly cost someone their life.  Covid started spreading when people were travelling around the world from china.  Washington, California, and New York were the first states covid reached.  In January 2020, there was a covid surge in Europe.  China was also under a strict lockdown.

On January 31, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency after finding out about a worldwide death toll of over 200 and finding out about 9800 covid cases.  On February 2, countries like China, Australia, Germany, Italy, and New Zealand restricted air travel.  People on their way to the United States could have faced a 2 week home based quarantine if they had returned to China.  Mainland visitors had to go through health screenings when they got back.  On February 10, China’s covid death toll became greater than the death toll of severe acute respiratory syndrome from 2000-2004.

Works Cited

https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid19-developments-in-2020

https://www.webmd.com/lung/coronavirus-history

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-timeline