5 things we know and still don't know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared

By Associated Press

Jan 03, 2025 11:25 am

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world.

The germ didn't have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting off a pandemic that exposed deep inequities in the global health system and reshaped public opinion about how to control deadly emerging viruses.

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