Earlier this year I read about the novel coronavirus spreading in China and thought it was only going to be a matter of time before it came to the U.S. I rightly assumed Washington state would be one of the first to get cases. On January 20, a 35-year-old Snohomish County man tested positive for COVID-19. Snohomish County is just north of Seattle, which is in King County. From there I was on high alert; watching every press conference Governor Jay Inslee held and reading as many articles as I could. Then the number of cases rose exponentially at Life Care Center in Kirkland, a nursing and rehabilitation center. I’m asthmatic which puts me in the vulnerable population group. As I watched the crisis grow, I would soon become infected with COVID-19 myself.
