MedPage Today January 19, 2021
Kristina Fiore

— Patient’s treatment similar to care for moderate, hospitalized illness today

It was one year ago — Jan. 20, 2020 — that the first case of SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported on U.S. soil.

It was still called the “novel coronavirus” at the time; at least that’s how it was referenced in a CDC statement. By the time a final New England Journal of Medicine report on the case was published March 5, it had been dubbed 2019-nCoV as well as SARS-CoV-2.

Few now believe it was really the country’s first case.

On Jan. 19, 2020, a man who’d recently returned from visiting family in Wuhan, China, presented to an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington, with a 4-day history...

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