Timeline for current events class

  • Covid

    Covid from early this year - the recent presidential debate
  • WHO Announces Mysterious Coronavirus-Related Pneumonia in Wuhan, China

    At the time, the WHO didn't really have too much information about covid, many believed that it would be just a simple flu, but as it started to spread around the world, people were starting to think that this could possibly be another plague!
  • CDC Says 3 US Airports Will Begin Screening for Coronavirus

    At this point, COVID-19 has really started to spread and has reached the airports, supposedly airports will start screening for the coronavirus. Will this mean that the airports will shut down?
  • US Declares Public Health Emergency

    The Trump administration started to announce that a public health emergency because of the coronavirus. This announcement came a few days after the WHO announced it.
  • China’s COVID-19 Deaths Exceed Those of SARS Crisis

    The death toll starts to really rise in China. At this point in time it had more deaths than SARS.
  • 21 Passengers on California Cruise Ship Test Positive

    Twenty one people on a cruise ship tested positive for covid-19, these few people were cruising with almost more than 3,500 passengers on board. Many had to stay in their rooms so they wouldn't catch the disease.
  • Trump Declares COVID-19 a National Emergency

    President Trump says that covid is something that we shouldn't mess with and be prepared for.
  • Travel Ban on Non-US Citizens Traveling From Europe Goes Into Effect

    (March 13th, continued) There is now a travel band on non-US citizens Traveling from Europe. Perhaps this is the reason why our exchange students had to go home early.
  • University of Minnesota Begins Testing Hydroxychloroquine

    The University of Minnesota launches multiple trials to see how people use Hydroxychloroquine will react. Could this possibly help slow the covid?
  • California Issues Statewide Stay-at-Home Order

    California was one of the first few states to issue a stay at home order, since they are a bigger state, it makes sense, since there are are a lot of people who live there.
  • Study Suggests 80% of Cases in March Went Undetected

    The government did some tests and found out that back in march, some of the covid cases were undetected and they were worried people could still catch the disease.
  • White House Coronavirus Task Force Addresses Rising Cases in the South

    The task force decides to tell what is happening with the rising covid cases, and how this country could handle the covid.
  • Gilead Sets Price for Remdesivir at $3120

    What this person basically did was raise prices at hospitals, and made hospital stays shorter and shorter. So they can make more room for people with covid, even though the people who don't have covid still need help!
  • Fauci Warns New COVID-19 Cases Could Hit 100,000 a Day

    Dr. Fauci says that covid cases rises every day. If you ask me, I don't see why he cares, especially if many articles have exposed him and china has too....of Fauci working with them.
  • People wonder about the debate

    People are thinking about what the debate may be talked about.
  • The Debate is now over

    The debate is over and many are unsatisfied. Many are embarrassed, for BOTH sides. Both Trump and Biden acted a fool. Not much was talked about because Biden kept telling Trump to shut up while he was just trying to state things through his frustration