The Year That Changed Everything

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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It’s hard to believe that it has been a year since Covid-19 made its way into the United States. One year ago, this week, a man walked into a clinic in Washington state, becoming the first patient to test positive for Covid-19 in the US. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks back on the painful lessons of this tragic year To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My infection prevention manager at the hospital called me and told me that there was a positive
0:05.9	code of patient and that the CDC had asked us to admit the patient for observation is this
0:11.2	was the first patient in the US with confirmed novel coronavirus.
0:15.6	About a year ago on January 19, 2020, a man in his 30s who had recently returned from Wuhan
0:22.4	China began feeling sick and walked into a clinic in Washington State.
0:28.0	He didn't know it at the time, but he would become the first patient to test positive
0:32.4	for COVID-19 in the United States.
0:35.8	His doctor, George Diaz, still remembers how much fear and uncertainty surrounded the
0:40.8	virus at the time.
0:42.4	What we saw in China before it arrived and shortly after it arrived was that they were having
0:47.7	a resort to measures that were extreme.
0:50.9	They were closing down major cities.
0:53.4	They were blocking people in their homes.
0:55.7	The fact that they had a resort to those sorts of measures meant that this was very contagious
1:00.8	and likely had a very high mortality.
1:03.3	What can you tell me about this patient?
1:06.4	How worried was he?
1:08.2	Did he think he might not survive this?
1:10.2	Yeah, he was pretty concerned he wouldn't survive.
1:12.6	He had a first kind of you in Wuhan about what was going on.
1:17.0	When he arrived in the US, he was pretty sure he had this infection and he was very concerned
1:22.9	about the severity of his illness.
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