Snowpocalypse

Wow, it’s been a crazy past few weeks. Texas was hit with some of the worst weather we have had in years. It actually snowed. It’s been so long since I had seen snow like this, but I don’t think people enjoyed it as much as I did. Thankfully, all I had to deal with was bad WIFI but some of my friends, as well as students, had it much worst with no power, water, and heat. I even heard one student’s roof burned down. Since we had a week off of school and a week of asynchronous work, I was able to get a lot of work done for my original work. One topic I did research on this week was the origins of COVID. COVID is not something new to the world. In 1965, scientists first observed a human coronavirus. This produced a widespread cold. Researchers identified a group of related human and animal viruses later that decade and named them for their crown-like shape. They will infect humans with seven coronaviruses. The one that causes SARS established in 2002 in southern China and spread rapidly to 28 other countries. I found this really interesting because most people did not even know the existence of COVID until last year, but now if one of the most talked-about topics out there today. I can’t wait to learn more interesting facts about my original work.