History of the United States II / Unit 17 USH2 2455 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Pandemic
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The idea
A new coronavirus, Covid-19, emerged in Wuhan, China, over the winter of two thousand nineteen, and the United States confirmed its first case in January, the Yawp records.
In practice
New York City's hospitals overflowing in the spring, thousands dying daily by April.
Where people slip
By May two thousand twenty-two, the Yawp says, the official American death toll crossed one million.
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