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Coronavirus, or COVID-19 as many doctors and scientists call it, has been part of everyone’s life since mid-March 2020.
Since then most schools, businesses, and communities have changed how they operated to prevent the spread of the virus.
Because the disease infected a large number of people all over the world, experts call it a pandemic.
Scientists don’t know the exact origin of COVID-19, but they do know that some similar diseases start in animals before
spreading to humans. These types of diseases are zoonotic. Cows, bats, and camels are among the animals that are found to
have spread diseases to humans in the past. The COVID-19 disease is also zoonotic, with the first cases popping up in
December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The affected humans were all connected to a nearby market that sold live animals. For over a year, many kids attended school at least partly from their houses; their parents might have worked from home,
too. This was all to avoid catching the virus from other people outside the home. Lots of people helped their neighbors throughout the pandemic. First responders, like healthcare workers, police officers,
and firefighters, maintained the health and safety of the general public; essential workers such as grocery store employees,
postal workers, and delivery drivers worked in-person to make sure other folks had what they needed to live.
As of July 2021, nearly 190 million people in the world have been infected by COVID-19, and more than four million
people have died. But the good news is that the numbers of people getting the virus in many countries are going down, thanks
to testing, vaccines, and other preventative measures, like wearing masks and social distancing.