It’s now three years since the first reports emerged of a previously unknown respiratory virus circulating in China.
As we settled into the New Year of 2020, few people could even imagine the devastation that was about to be unleashed. The virus we now know as COVID-19 caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, exposing fundamental weaknesses in systems that were supposed to minimize the impact of unexpected health emergencies.
Looking back to the start of the pandemic, the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University has recorded more than 661 million COVID-19 infections and more than 6.6 million COVID-related deaths.
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