A World in Disarray—It is hard to overstate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we write this article, there are nearly three million documented cases of the virus worldwide, and more than 207,000 people have tragically lost their lives to this disease. In the U.S. alone, there are nearly a million confirmed cases, and in excess of 55,000 people have succumbed to the illness. In the months after the first outbreak of the novel coronavirus surfaced in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and began spreading around the world almost immediately, the devastating impact of the illness became quickly apparent. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic—the first such pandemic caused by a coronavirus. On March 13, 2020, President Trump declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a national emergency. In the weeks following those declarations, nearly all of us have experienced seismic disruptions to multiple facets of our lives.
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