Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history: Timeline of Events Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: “In December of 2019 an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, and was recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. The pandemic led to global socioeconomic disruption as drastic action was taken to suppress the outbreak. This up-to-date timeline provides details and key events in the crisis, focusing on its impact in the United States.”