A Year in America's First COVID Epicenter
Overnight, as I wrote at the time, Seattle became a laboratory of Americaâs immediate futureâa test case for the way that the rest of the country would live for the next year and beyond. Handshakes, indoor dining, and multi-person elevator rides disappeared in Seattle before anywhere else; boarded-up windows, empty store shelves, and business districts turned to ghost towns made their earliest débuts. In those first days, so little was known about the virus that officials scrambled to draft a playbook, Jeffrey Duchin, the health officer for Public HealthâSeattle & King Count...
Source: newyorker.com