Coronavirus
Over 800,000 Americans Have Died of Coronavirus
The coronavirus has now killed more than 800,000 people in the U.S., just two years after the first COVID-19 cluster was reported in Wuhan, China, and a year after vaccines were first rolled out.
“It’s tragic on so many levels,” said Dr. Helen Chu, an immunologist and epidemiologist at the University of Washington.
It was Chu’s team in Seattle that identified the first case of community spread of COVID-19 in the U.S., as she and her colleagues pivoted from testing nasal swabs for influenza to test for the coronavirus — and raised the alarm about its presence, despite political and bureaucratic obstacles.
