Five years ago, the WHO declared COVID a global pandemic, causing unprecedented disruption worldwide. The outbreak began in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, leading to lockdowns and severe health crises as the virus spread rapidly. Major cities faced overwhelming hospitalizations and fatalities, creating haunting scenes like refrigerated trucks as temporary morgues. Though many now feel distanced from those early struggles, the memory remains vivid for families affected and healthcare workers. Currently, the severity of COVID has abated, with lower hospitalization and death rates, as experts suggest the virus may be approaching an endemic state.
Rewind to late December 2019: hospitals in Wuhan, China, were filling up with cases of a mysterious pneumonia. By January 2020, as the body count started to mount and Wuhan was locked down, other countries began reporting cases.
Still, by most measures, COVID feels nowhere near the dire threat it was in those first few years. People in the U.S. are not being hospitalized and dying of the illness at anywhere close to the rates that occurred in previous years.
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