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Collected Item: “Covid 19 How it started.”

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Covid 19 How it started.

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Text Story

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At first when I heard about covid it was in Asia and my parents didn't know how it started. In January 2020, my parents told my sisters and I about it and how it started in China from bat soup. I thought it wasn't that bad and that it would go away soon. I thought it wouldn't spread to North America. My opinions have changed so much because covid came to North America and numbers are rising. At first I didn't realize it would be such a dangerous disease in a couple months.

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Maeve

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2020-01-21
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