FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – No one knows how the coronavirus arrived in Florida as 2020 dawned. Maybe a Super Bowl visitor brought it before the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in early February.
Maybe a business traveler returning from Asia, Seattle or New York or a cruise passenger was infected.What is known is like the rest of the planet, the pandemic dominated Florida headlines in 2020 — more than 21,100 residents have died from COVID-19, tens of thousands have been hospitalized and more than a million caught it.The virus cratered the state's economy.