The 35-year old man was returning from China’s Wuhan on January 15, 2020, when he developed a fever and a cough.

Four days after reading an alert by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding an epidemic of a new coronavirus, he sought medical attention at an urgent care center in Snohomish County..

He was confirmed by the CDC on January 21st. first known case of coronavirusThe virus was later discovered by the U.S. agency arrived on the West Coast as early as December after testing blood samples for antibodies.

According to the man, he’d had not spent time at the Huanan seafood marketIn Wuhan, where several early cases were discovered in December. For observation, he was transferred to Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett..

The CDC informed the public after confirming that Washington had been infected. The CDC indicated that the evidence was mounting of person-to–person transmission, however, “it is unclear how easy this virus is spreading between persons.”

CNBC then heard President Donald Trump tell CNBC that America is a great country. had it “totally under control.”

“It is one individual coming from China. It’s under control. It will be all right,” Trump said to “SquawkBox” host Joe Kernen during an interview from Davos’ World Economic Forum.

On Jan. 31, Dr. Anthony Fauci confirmed the worst fears of the public: The virus could be spread by people without symptoms. The Seattle Flu Study’s Helen Chu and her research team began to examine Wuhan’s genomic data. Chu stated that it was obvious from the beginning that there was a person-to-person transmission. The team identified another Covid patient in the flu study’s database of nasal swab specimens. This indicated that it was spreading to the rest of the community.

Late February saw Dr. Nancy Messonnier (a top CDC official) warn that the country’s ability to contain the virus within its borders is no longer possible. She said that the virus would spread to the U.S. and the key question was, “How many Americans will be affected by severe disease?”

The virus has ravaged the United States with such ferocity that few expected it to last for two years, since the first case was confirmed. With more than 860,000 deaths and more than 69,000,000 infections, the human cost is immense. The nation’s hospitals have suffered a severe shortage of beds, with over 4 million confirmed Covid patients admitted to hospital since August 2020. This was when the CDC started keeping track of hospitalizations..Hospital admissions do not reflect the number of patients admitted to the U.S. during the first wave in 2020, when the U.S. was hit hard by a lackluster testing program and hospitals found themselves on the wrong foot.

The U.S. is now equipped with effective therapies and vaccines for Covid. However, there are still unknown outcomes as Covid evolves into more deadly variants..This highly contagious variant of the omicron virus has caused hospitalizations and infections to reach record levels across the world this month. It is a shocking shock for a public desperate to return to normal after two years’ worth of lockdowns and event cancellations.

Many scientists, elected officials, and public health professionals were shocked at the rapid development of the virus, and subsequent waves of infected individuals, from alpha, delta, and omicron. A top epidemiologist, Dr. Michael Osterholm stated that Covid mutations would determine the fate of the pandemic.

CNBC spoke with Osterholm, the director of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. He said, “We don’t yet know how these variants appear and what their capabilities are.” Take a look at how the omicron virus caught us, a global community, by its speedy transmission and immune evasion. “Look at Delta and the effect it had on disease severity,” said he.

In the spring 2021 new infections began to decrease and vaccines became more readily available. The U.S. was able to lower its defenses. The CDC stated that those fully vaccinated don’t need to use masks indoors. President Joe BidenThe United States of America was close to declaring its independence from the virus when it declared independence on July 4.

At the same time, the U.S. was experiencing the Delta variant and it would cause an epidemic of infections and hospitalizations. For months, public health officials have tried to persuade skeptical people to receive the vaccines.

According to CDC data, 67% of Americans over 5 have been fully vaccinated more than a year since the initial vaccine was given in the U.S. Even though data shows that they are safe and effective in preventing serious illness and death, there is still a huge number of Americans who have yet to get their shot.

Osterholm explained that they had no idea in January 2020 about the future divisive politics, and reaction of communities to this. “Who could have predicted the amount of vaccination hesitancy, hostility, and other ill-treatment that has occurred?”

Delta spread more easily than any other variants. Research also showed it to cause severe diseases in people who were not vaccinated. The CDC decided to reverse their loose mask guidance. They encouraged everyone, no matter what vaccination status, not only to wear masks in public areas with high levels of transmission, but also encourage people who aren’t vaccinated to do so indoors.

When omicron was discovered in November, vaccines suffered a major hit. They are still effective in protecting against death and severe illness, but they’re less efficient at stopping infection by omicron. Chu claimed that vaccines were used primarily to prevent the transmission of the virus in the United States. However, they did not include widespread testing or masking. This is crucial for the control of omicron-resistant variants.

Chu stated, “We know now that you can be repeatedly infected and you can get vaccine breakthroughs. This virus will continue to evolve and evade us for the long-term.”

Katriona Shea co-leads a team of researchersThey combine models to predict the pathogenesis of the pandemic. Their latest update shows that the omicron-wave of hospitalizations as well as cases is likely to peak by the end of April. Their most optimistic projections show that there could be anywhere between 16,000 and 98,000 more deaths due to the omicron waves by April 2.

Current statistics in the U.S. show that there are an average of more then 736,000 new infection per day,CNBC has analyzed the data from Johns Hopkins for seven days to determine the average..Although this is still a high number than in previous waves of the flu, it has decreased by 8% over the past week. On a daily basis, more than 1,800 Americans die each day in the United States.

Chu stated, “It is really, really frustrating to see people die from a vaccine preventable illness.”

Uncertain are the consequences of omicron on the outcome of the current pandemic. The classic theory holds that viruses become more infectious and less severe over time, which allows for easier access to new hosts.

Shea from Pennsylvania State University said that although there are many reasons to doubt that, the leap to Omicron was massive. This suggests that it has plenty of room for change. Omicron contains more than 30 mutations in the spike protein, which binds with human cells. Because the shots attack the spike protein, the mutations make vaccination-induced antibodies more difficult to prevent infection.

South Africa’s infectious disease specialists and doctors said the variant had peaked at its highest point and then began to decrease rapidly. It was clearly a different strain than other ones. This is the researchers also saidSteve Biko Academic Hospital saw a decrease in ICU deaths and admissions.

The researchers stated that Omicron might be an indicator of the end for the Covid pandemic.

According to Jennie, a biotech company Karius computational investigational biologist, when a virus is endemic, the mutations will slow down and the disease would be milder. The virus could be less disruptive in this situation.

However, the head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, cautioned earlier this week that the pandemic is “nowhere near over,” warning that new variants are likely to emerge as omicron rapidly spread across the world.

“Everybody longs to be endemic. It’s still a mystery to me what that actually means.” Osterholm stated that he is an epidemiologist with 46 years experience.We can have a time period with low activity like what we see in other places around the globe, but then we could get a variant that changes everything overnight. “We don’t know what the future holds.”