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Heather Digby Parton

What broke us: COVID or Trump?

Donald Trump silhouette over COVID-19 spores Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

Two years ago today, the World Health Organization declared that the new coronavirus, first detected just a few weeks before in Wuhan, China, had become a global pandemic. That same day the NBA suspended its season and actor Tom Hanks revealed that he and his wife Rita Wilson had contracted the virus. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told a congressional panel that the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States would get significantly worse.

"The number could go way up and be involved in many, many millions."

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