On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, Wuhan City, China, reported several pneumonia cases with unknown causes, eventually identifying a novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Before the conclusion of January, this coronavirus had breached U.S. borders. Since that time, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the state of public health.
According to the “COVID Data Tracker” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of September 10, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has resulted in: