The Base of this story is when the bubonic plague struck America, officials tried to cover it up. Now let’s get into some more detail. On March 6, 1900, the body of a 41-year-old Chinese- American was found dead in the basement of a San Fransisco- Chinatown hotel. While the doctor was writing the death certificate, he started noticing strange little nodules on the body. He sent tests to a municipal lab, and they came back showing that he had died from the Bubonic Plague. He was the first case ever in America. The city’s newly-founded health board immediately put Chinatown under strict quarantine. The next two years consisted of a battle between California officials and federal scientists. The Officials said that the plague didn’t exist while the scientists were fighting to stop the growing epidemic.

This fight between the two resulted in nation-wide controversy. This drew in the president and nearly two dozen governors. This ultimately led to forcing California’s governor out of office. But this didn’t happen before a leading scientist was demonized and over a hundred victims had died from the dreadful disease. By this time “The Black Death” was now raging across Asia, killing millions. US officials had worried for a long time that it would make its way across the pacific, to West Coast ports. The highly infectious disease, which was mainly carried by rodents, was usually fatal. The secret did come out into the San Fransisco Chronicle and was no secret anymore. But sadly I’m out of sentences.

1. Why did they try to cover it up?
2. If they covered up the Bubonic Plague for that long, why didn’t they try to cover up Covid-19?
3. How did the plague mutate to mainly travel by rodents?