The deaths, spread out across four states in January 2020, had become part of a scattershot collection of clues about the virus’s early spread.
In early March 2020, an elderly man died in In California Placer County of COVID-19.
The death prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency to allow the state to respond faster to health worker needs. Less than two weeks later, schools across the state would shutter and, shortly after that, California entered the first of several stay-at-home orders.
In March 2020, the Trump administration started conducting daily press briefings at the White House. They became a joke after Trump seriously suggested that injections of bleach might kill the virus.
By April 2020 daily cases exceeded 2,000 people nationwide.
By November 2020 cases exceeded 100,000 a day. By December of that year the cases exceeded 200,000 per day. It stared ebbing in January 2021 to less than 100,00 daily cases but resurged in August and September to over 100,000 new daily cases.
December 11, 2021 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. It became available in January 2022.Three vaccines developed from different pharmaceutical companies soon became readily available.
Despite the availability of vaccines about one third of Americans refuse to be vaccinated. Daily rate of new cases still exceeds 30,000 people.
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