Near the end of December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, Wuhan City, China, reported several pneumonia cases that officials eventually tied to a new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, now generally known as COVID-19. Before the conclusion of January, this insidious coronavirus had breached U.S. borders. Since that time, the resulting global pandemic has wreaked havoc on public health.
According to the “COVID Data Tracker” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of by December 2020, at the time of this writing, the pandemic in the U.S. has resulted in over 16 million cases and over 300,000 deaths.