"Patient One: How America's First Known Coronavirus Patient Recovered"

PBS Frontline, as part of a bigger documentary Coronavirua Pandemicprepared this 6-minute short Patient One: How America's First Known Coronavirus Patient Recoveredin mid April 2020.

There is also a link How America's First Known Coronavirus Patient Recovered. The patient, from China, developed severe flu like symptoms at home and Providence Hospital in Seattle was prepared for a possible Covid patient. He was isolated immediately and got worse with pneumonia-likw shortness of breath but got better quickly with compassionate antibody treatment.

We know that a woman died of a severe heart attack after getting covid in Cal. at an import company in early Feb. Scattered early likely cases are known. Health departments were geared for mandatory contact tracing by the end of January 2020, but the deaths were not reported officially until Feb. 29