Nation ‘It’s going to be around a long time’: What we’ve learned from the first discovered COVID-19 cases April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY Comments Off on ‘It’s going to be around a long time’: What we’ve learned from the first discovered COVID-19 cases They both died in their homes in February, days before COVID-19 was known to have killed anyone in the U.S. No one knew what killed them - until now.