This week marks two years since COVID-19 changed lives in Washington state, across the country and throughout the world.
On Jan. 19, 2020, a Snohomish County man in his 30s went to an urgent care clinic with symptoms of pneumonia and was taken to Everett’s Providence Regional Medical Center to be treated.after deploying a team to the state to help with contact tracing efforts.According to the CDC, the man had returned from a trip to Wuhan, China after visiting family and arrived at Sea-Tac International Airport asymptomatic.
On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Shortly after, former President Donald J. Trump declared a nationwide emergency and U.S. states began to shut down to prevent the spread of the virus.
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