text_1: Facebook post Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019.
text_2: The first confirmed COVID-19 case in the United States was reported on Jan. 20, 2020. The patient was a man who had recently returned to Washington state from Wuhan, China. The first reported case of COVID-19 in the world was from Wuhan on Dec. 31, 2019. “It is very unlikely we had cases in November or December, given what we know about the course of the disease and its later symptoms,” one expert said.