LOS ANGELES - Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of when the global medical community received an alert about an unidentified cluster of a pneumonia-like illness that would later come to be known as COVID-19.
A year later, the deadly virus has exploded into a global pandemic, infecting more than 82 million people around the world and upending the lives of nearly everyone on Earth.RELATED: The history-making moments that have happened so far in 2020 — and we’re only halfway throughLast year on Dec.
30, 2019 a minute before midnight, the ProMed bulletin service released a notice warning of the then-unidentified virus. Stuart Malcolm, a doctor with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, walks by a supportive sign on a boarded-up shop while.