State of Mankind

How Long Did It Take for the Coronavirus to ‘Go around the Planet’?

By Jim Geraghty, June 12, 2020

Earlier this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said SARS-CoV-2 surprised him with “how rapidly it just took over the planet. . . . This took about a month to go around the world.”

Certainly between January 1 and January 31, the coronavirus changed from ...