In The Moment ... April 21, 2020 Show 800 Hour 1 On January 21st, the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the United States was reported by the Centers for Disease Control. The patient near Seattle had recently returned from Wuhan, China, where officials have been dealing with illnesses caused by the coronavirus since December. In the following three months, more than three-quarters of a million positive cases have been reported - along with more than 42,000 deaths in the U.S. alone. One of