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The ongoing global health crisis arose quickly,

with clusters of unusual pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China in December of 2019.

By early January, they reported their first death,

and a little later that month, other countries began to confirm cases of their own.

Before the end of that month, the World Health Organization declared

a global health emergency. Here in the United States, as early as the beginning of March,

comparisons were being made between the novel coronavirus epidemic and the terror attacks of September 11th,

2001. At first, similarities were noted in the

effects of these two tragedies on airlines, and that industry's need for a federal bailout.

Very quickly then, it became a touchstone. There have been numerous articles holding up the

death toll of this novel coronavirus to that of 9-11.

And as the number of casualties surpassed those of September 11th, more articles have appeared that contrasted that tragedy and the current one.

Some opinion pieces have argued that the two should not be equated, being that 9-11 was a deliberate

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