Lockdowns and the use of face masks helped slow the spread of the disease. Since then, almost 7 million more deaths have been confirmed. On January 9 of that year, Chinese authorities determined that a mysterious cluster of pneumonia-like illnesses was caused by a novel coronavirus. What we do know is that covid-19 spread all around the world in 2020. My colleague Antonio Regalado has explored the question in his five-part podcast series, Curious Coincidence. But some maintain that it could have leaked from a lab. Most scientists believe it must have jumped from an animal host to humans at a market in Wuhan, China. For a start, we still don’t really know where this particular coronavirus came from. It’s worth pointing out that there are still some big, unanswered questions when it comes to covid-19. So this week let’s take a look at exactly where we stand with covid. Another replied: “This is still a thing?”Īs a health reporter who has been covering covid since the early days, I am still asked this question on a fairly regular basis. The onset of symptoms was rapid, and she described it as “like being hit by a freight train.” “How very retro of you,” another colleague commented. My colleague has just come down with covid-19. My eldest told me she was feeling poorly this morning, and the youngest crawled into my bed to cough in my face. For a parent of two young children, that means ice creams, water fountains, picnics, and-inevitably-coughs and colds. We’re well into summer here in the Northern Hemisphere.
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