It all began at a nursing home in Washington state.Or at least that is what was known at the time. When the first deaths from the coronavirus took place researchers began testing and scientists sounded the alarm. But the invisible enemy was already spreading throughout the community. Correspondent Mike Kirsch deployed to Ground Zero during the peak of the curve in Seattle as the death count was rising rapidly.

Long before the COVID-19 outbreak in New York, the coronavirus first made its mark in King County, one of the most populated counties in the United Stated. King County is home to Seattle, the city that became the first epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S. One by one, other cities – then states – were following through. We took a look back at the first cases of COVID-19 in the United States in Seattle, the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S. before the lockdown began.