There have been nearly 965,000 American lives confirmed lost to the virus.
A team assembled by the World Health Organization recently visited Wuhan to research where COVID-19 came from, but it could be years before there are clear answers about how the outbreak started.Although the nationwide quarantine was initially meant to last only 14 days, in the hope of slowing down the spread of the virus, two weeks eventually turned into a two-year ordeal, lasting far longer than health experts had initially predicted.
It was only when positive cases reached U.S. soil that most Americans began to take notice of the growing crisis.A woman walks past a memorial dedicated to those who lost their lives to COVID-19 at Greenwood Cemetary on May 28, 2020 in New York City. Early predictions from the Trump Administration in late March of 2020 between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans could lose their lives, though the president told reporters at aMany experts believe that the current COVID-19 death totals are undercounted due to inconsistent reporting by states and localities, and also by the exclusion of records of excess deaths -- a measure of how many lives have been lost beyond what would be expected if the pandemic had not occurred.
However, despite a March 6, 2020, proclamation by Trump that"anybody that wants a test can get a test," the demand for COVID-19 testing would soon outpace the supply.