COVID-19 changed how people viewed illness but also revealed the depths of mistrust in medicine, masking and vaccines.

GREEN BAY - March 18 will mark five years since COVID-19 officially made its way to Green Bay. Brown County health officials confirmed its first coronavirus case on March 18, 2020, and numbers quickly spiked throughout the year and in the years after as variants of the virus emerged.

It's been five years since the coronavirus outbreak overtook the world and changed our lives forever. Flashback: Though local cities and counties didn't issue shelter-in-place orders until mid-March 2020,