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On December 12, 2019, a group of patients in Wuhan, the capital city of the province of Hubei in China, began experiencing shortness of breath and fever. Little did the world know that these clandestine occurrences of "pneumonia of unknown etiology" in that 3,280 mi² area would affect the whole globe up to this day almost three years later. Having declared this novel coronavirus, "SARS-CoV-2," as a public health emergency back on January 31, 2020, and the formalized name "COVID-19" as a pandemic that March 11, the virus has a current global death toll of more than 5 million people.
Though devastating the deaths that this pandemic has imbued on our world, its effects have truly transcended the medical aspect of societies: people lost jobs, many lost hope, and many were isolated from their loved ones. With the powers of medical technology, re ...
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public health