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2020
January 21, 2020 - First case of Covid-19 is confirmed in the United States. The virus, Covid-19, pandemic had erupted in late 2019 as China denied gain of function research caused it at a Wuhan lab partially funded by the USA instead of a natural virus that transmuted to human beings from bats. By the end of the month, a travel ban is placed against China and six other nations with high rates of infection.
March 12, 2020 - Economy halts as the pandemic spreads to Europe and the United States at a rapid pace without knowledge of how to treat the infected or prevent residents from contracting it. Governors and federal offices begin to ban large gatherings. Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen by its large intraday drop ever, two thousand points, three days earlier. Then four days later exceeds that drop, dropping another two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven points.
March 25, 2020 - House and Senate approve a two trillion dollar emergency spending bill, the Cares Act, to prop up the economy as people lose jobs and are told to stay home due to the pandemic. President Trump signs bill two days later as 3.2 million people during the week before had signed up for unemployment benefits, the highest amount in history.
May 25, 2020 - Riots and protests erupt across the United States from the killing of a black citizen in Minneapolis, George Floyd, by a policeman. Millions of dollars in damages to small businesses in cities occur, taking advantage of the chaos, as groups like Black Lives Matter and like-minded residents call for a change in police structure and end to harsher treatment by authorities against black and brown citizens.
November 2, 2020 - Poor communication about the pandemic, which would take 385,000 lives by the end of December, and the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic filter into the race for President as President Trump, after a poor first debate performance, loses a contentious election to former Vice President Joe Biden.
December 11, 2020 - FDA announces emergency authorization to Pfizer to administer its Covid-19 vaccine. Seven days later it announced that Moderna has also been given emergency authorization for its vaccine.