First dog confirmed with COVID-19 in the United States

Video by: Payton Tysinger

Three of the four members of the McClean family came down with COVID-19 in March, but no one ever expected that the next member of the family to get the virus would be their pet pug, Winston.

Payton Tysinger

Payton Tysinger is a junior from Lexington, NC, majoring in broadcast journalism and political science. He currently works as a production assistant at WRAL and hopes to be a correspondent at the network level.