Certainly as I celebrated Christmas with my family, I wasn't thinking COVID-19. We were redecorating the house. We had carpenters, painters and carpet installers. I was hoping that the work would be finished by Christmas, but it wasn't. With all that was happening at home, I missed any announcement about the mysterious pneumonia that was killing people in China. However I was somewhat familiar with coronavirus when I read about the death of Dr. Li Wenliang on February 7. I remember offering a prayer for three stranded cruise ships in early February. For a year, my sister, niece, daughter and I had planned to attend the Philadelphia flower show in late February and early March. The first positive New York case was discovered that weekend. I returned home and the governor closed bars, restaurants and casinos and later issued a shelter in place order. So now with lots of time on my hands, I read every scientific article to try to make sense of this disease. What is coronavirus? How does it affect the human body? Where did the virus originate? When will the virus disappear? Will we develop herd immunity? I read an excellent article in The Atlantic authored by Ed Yong about how the pandemic will end. The story is evolving.
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