From Wuhan outbreak to exponential spread : How COVID-19 dominated the year 2020 Abby Haglage
What began as rumblings of a strange, pneumonia-like illness in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 escalated to a pandemic the likes of which the world has never seen. 2020, in turn, was a year of upheaval, a year of both loss and of hope, a year that will be remembered in the history books.
As of this week, more than 21 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19 and over 360,000 have died. Initially, many treated the virus as if it was someone else’s problem, a problem for seafood markets in China and cruise ships quarantined off the coast of Japan, that set off a wave of anti-Asian harassment and assaults that would last through the year.
Today in History, January 7, 2021
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This day in history, January 7: President Truman announces the US has developed a hydrogen bomb
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Some of the entertainers, innovators, news makers and people of note we lost in 2020
Now that the year is finally over and done with, we at Village Media would like to take pause and remember those the world lost in 2020.
Here are just some of the entertainers, innovators, news makers, and people of note that left us this year (in no particular order):
Alex Trebek – Jeopardy! host from 1984 through 2020. The Northern Ontario native also made appearances in numerous television series, usually as himself. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy in 2011 and named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017 by then Governor General David Johnston for “his iconic achievements in television and for his promotion of learning, notably as a champion for geographical literacy.”