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Collected Item: “Virus in 2020”

Give your story a title.

Virus in 2020

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Text story

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

I think that COVID-19 started because of a small virus that was based in China. Since air travel is very popular, COVID could have traveled in a person from China that went to the US or somewhere else. People can have COVID and not have symptoms, so maybe the people didn't have symptoms and didn't go to the doctor. Since it started out small, no one thought that it would become a global pandemic, so they thought it was unnecessary to deal with.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#oakschristian

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Jayden Alvarez

Give this story a date.

2019
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