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[2021]
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"In January 2020 the World Health Organization announced a global public health emergency. A massive wave of unemployment swept the nation. Millions of mostly blue collar workers in shuttered industries were laid off. Panicked supermarket shoppers endured long lines and packed aisles to stock up on staples, stripping shelves of toilet paper and water, flour, and spaghetti. Disinfectants and cold and flu medicines were sold out. Life-saving ventilators...
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2021.
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"By October 2020, more than 33 million people had contracted COVID-19 worldwide. Without a blueprint to follow for curbing a pandemic, the nations of the world were left to come up with their own plans of action. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life in the United States"--
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2021.
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"Many people stepped up to help others during the COVID-19 pandemic. A pandemic is a disease outbreak that spreads over large geographic areas, such as whole countries, continents, or multiple countries and continents, and affects a large portion of the population. Throughout the crisis, people of diverse ages and backgrounds put the needs of others above their own, often, at great personal sacrifice. They performed acts of service and kindness to...
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2021.
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"From its murky origins in China to its rapid development into a full-blown health crisis,COVID-19 has killed hundreds of thousands worldwide and led government leaders to lock down their economies and quarantine their citizens. The virus appears to have originated in Wuhan, China. On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave the disease its official name. COVID-19 means a COronaVIrus Disease discovered in 2019. One month later,...
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[2021]
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"COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March, 2020, when nearly 120,000 cases were reported in over 110 countries. By that time scientists were already working frantically to develop a vaccine to combat the disease. By the summer of 2020, COVID-19 cases had surpassed 20 million, and more than 735,000 people had died. The search for a COVID-19 vaccine was a race against time versus an insidious virus that knew no boundaries and left few people untouched."...
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