This is one story behind how and why West Virginia had no reported coronavirus cases for so long.
How one woman fought to get her husband tested while her state was applauded for having no coronavirusBy Mallory Simon, CNNChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.
Carolyn Vigil was lying in bed next to her husband when she first saw the meme. It noted West Virginia had no reported cases of coronavirus, and jokingly pleaded for its people to hang on. She remembers it so well because it's the day her husband James began to feel sick in their Shepherdstown home in the West Virginia panhandle. Her husband was sick from Covid-19. But her"coronavirus-free" state wasn't set up to test him.He would become the state's Patient #1. They didn't know it then, of course, nor did anyone else. But in the following days they felt like that they were the only people in the state who wanted to find out.
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