Coronavirus: Only in America

Allison Li
2 min readMay 7, 2020
Netflix

Here are some select events that happened in America in the last month and a half.

March 20. 20,000 Americans tested positive for Covid-19. 200 dead.

March 20. Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness was released. It became the №1 show on Netflix, viewed more than 30 million times in the first 10 days.

March 26. A week after the death of Kious Kelly, a nurse from Mount Sinai West Hospital at NYC, his coworkers posted a picture of themselves in trash bags at work due to the lack of the protective gear.

March 31. 200,000 Americans tested positive for Covid-19. 3,000 dead.

April 10. The instagram account for Dr. Birx’s scarfs @deborahbirxscarvres gained over 10,000 followers since its debut.

April 13. 500,000 Americans tested positive for Covid-19. 20,000 dead.

April 25. Brad Pitt played Dr. Fauci for the opening of Saturday Night Live.

April 26. Dr. Lorna Breen, 48, committed suicide. She was the medical director at the New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital and treated many Covid-19 patients.

April 27. Kylie Jenner and her BFF showed off their twerking skill in a TikTok video. The video gained 1.4 million likes.

April 28. 1 million Americans tested positive for Covid-19. 55,000 dead.

April 30. Enjoying his newfound status as New York’s most eligible bachelor, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, the state with 20,000 deaths, appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show.

May 4.1,200,000 Americans tested positive for Covid-19. 65,000 dead.

May 4. A big question is circling around Hollywood: Who is going to play Joe Exotic in the new TV series? Nicolas Cage?

Photos: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Image and NBC/YouTube

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