{"id":8553,"date":"2025-01-22T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2025-01-22T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:11:12","slug":"covid-19-it-has-been-five-years-since-the-first-case-in-america-whats-it-like-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/22\/covid-19-it-has-been-five-years-since-the-first-case-in-america-whats-it-like-today\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: It has been five years since the first case in America. What&#8217;s it like today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/01\/20\/covid-19-five-years-first-case-2025\/77744363007\/\">USA Today<\/a> Five years ago Monday, someone was identified with COVID-19 for the first time on American soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the years since,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#maps_deaths-total\">1.2 million Americans have died<\/a>&nbsp;from the virus, and more than 7 million worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Jan. 20, 2020, laboratory tests confirmed that man in his 30s who had recently returned from Wuhan, China, was infected with the novel coronavirus, which hadn&#8217;t yet been named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chaos and fear that would unfold couldn&#8217;t be foreseen at the time, but they would mark the start of a period marked by uncertainty and public health transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/01\/20\/covid-19-five-years-first-case-2025\/77744363007\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today Five years ago Monday, someone was identified with COVID-19 for the first time on American soil. In the years since,&nbsp;1.2 million Americans have died&nbsp;from the virus, and more than 7 million worldwide. On Jan. 20, 2020, laboratory tests confirmed that man in his 30s who had recently returned from Wuhan, China, was infected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8554,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}