A year ago today, U.S. airports began screening for COVID -- and 1st of many coronavirus stories appeared in the Daily News

Just two weeks into the new year, America's attention was largely focused on the impeachment trial of President Trump, the shooting of a Ukrainian jetliner in Iran just days earlier and the Democratic presidential primaries. But one headline on the Daily News' website that day marked the beginning of a horrific series of stories about a then-mysterious new virus. "3 U.S. airports, including JFK, to screen for virus from China," read the headline.