We end 2020 in an unimaginable place, with more than 80 million cases of the novel coronavirus and more than 1.7 million deaths reported globally.
As a result, we are also experiencing a cascading social and economic fallout that heralds perhaps the greatest social and political challenges in modern history.
It was exactly one year ago this week, Dec. 31, 2019, that the first mentions in the mainstream U.S. media began to circulate of a mystery illness that had sickened dozens of people in Chinese mega-city Wuhan.
Alarming outbreaks quickly occurred around the world and by the end of January more than 2,000 cases and 43 deaths had been reported.
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