Denise DadorFour years ago Monday, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Today, L.A. County's "patient zero" recalls the milestone.Four years ago, Monday, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.
When emergency room physician Dr. Stephen Kishineff met Garfield four years ago, it was under far different circumstances.Kishineff immediately called pulmonary critical care specialist Dr. Daniel Dea. "It was definitely a Rumpelstiltskin moment. So I woke up and I was educated really quickly on what was going on around me," he said.He recalls how the four years dragged on.