![]() ![]() STONE: Lots of residents were getting sick, and soon some of them became the next few U.S. At this point, what do we know about what happened there? That nursing home is called Life Care Center. We were also told that there was an outbreak at a nursing home in the suburb of Kirkland.ĬORNISH: Right. And the very next day, we learned about the first death. But close to a month went by before we realized it, and that was announced February 28. STONE: And during that time, we now know that the virus was spreading silently in the Seattle area. And then it was kind of this growing horror, but people were really complacent. TREVOR BEDFORD: I thought that the cat was out of the bag and that we're going to have a pandemic and that there was kind of no stopping it at that point. He's a viral scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center here in Seattle. But one person who did not do that was Trevor Bedford. It was a resident traveling back from China. ![]() STONE: It wasn't necessarily local because, you know, very soon the entire country was watching the Seattle area, but it did really feel containable. But back then, did it seem like it was a local story? By this point, people have passed in every single state. Will is here to talk more about it.ĬORNISH: The date on that death was February 29, more than six months ago. It was a man in his 50s who lived outside Seattle. Health care reporter Will Stone covered that death. Now, if you go back a little more than six months ago, 200,000 deaths ago, you'd get to Seattle and the man that at that time was thought to be the first death from coronavirus in the U.S. will reach a milestone that no one will celebrate - 200,000 deaths from COVID-19. ![]()
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