After 11,000 cases across 114 countries, COVID-19 was declared an international emergency on March 11, 2020. Today, May 11, 2023, the pandemic has been changed to a non-emergency, ending an over 3-year-long era of concern. Here are the things that happened during the pandemic:
2020
- Murder hornets!!
- Start of Black Lives Matter Movement
- Beirut Explosion
- Australia Bushfires
- Kanye West runs for President
- Chadwick Boseman’s Death
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s Death
- Biden and Kamala Harris become President and Vice President Elect
- Trump tests positive for COVID-19
- Vaccine rollout starts
2021
- January 6. Capitol Riots
- Trump impeached (for the second time), then acquitted
- Bernie Sanders and the mittens
- Elon Musk becomes richest man alive
- Jeff Bezos steps down from Amazon
- Kim and Kanye announce their divorce
- Suez Canal Blockage
- NASA lands rover on Mars
- 2020 Olympics are finally held
- Tiger King 2 came out
2022
- Omicron variant makes up 95% of all Covid cases
- Spotify boycott because of Joe Rogan
- Taliban takes away high school women’s ability to get an education
- Twitter announces sale to Elon Musk for 44 billion
- Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas
- Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court
- Queen Elizabeth II Dies
- Iran protests begin, women’s rights
- Putin sends 1.2 million soldiers into Ukraine
- World Cup takes place in Qatar
2023 (so far)
- Jeremy Renner’s snowplow Accident
- It took 15 votes to elect Speaker of the House
- A 6-year-old in Virginia shot his teacher with his mother’s gun
- King Charles II had his coronation
