re: CDC issues warning of rapid spreading fungal Infection with 60% Kill Rate

"Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Covid also first appear in Washington and spread from there"

No the first documented case of Covid-19 in the US was in Washington state or northern California, sometime around the second week of January 2020. If I remember correctly it was traced back to someone who likely participated in the Asian New Year celebration and then returned home. As I recall there was reluctance to put a hiatus on travel because of all the celebration that was associated with the Asian New Year. The quarantine did not go into effect until immediately after that, but by then it was too late. So many travelers who attended were already loaded with the virus and winging their way back across the world to spread the virus.
This Candida sp. scares the hell outa me. It is a combination of Staph aureus and Candida albicans, both of which are endemic in the environment and are common skin contaminants, but this one is resistant to most every drug and if a person is infected, not colonized, it could kill them quite quickly. Think of a combination of a yeast infection and skin infection. Sadly, so many now are on immunosuppressive therapy for everything from ulcerative colitis to cancer and those people will be extremely susceptible.