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The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" [2] and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". [3]
Idaho: The state's first confirmed case was announced, a woman in her 50s who recently traveled to New York. [213] Illinois: All schools are closed beginning Tuesday, March 17 through the end of March. [214] Kentucky: First of Kentucky's COVID-19 patients to be declared fully recovered is discharged from University of Kentucky Medical Center. [215]
The first confirmed human case in the United States was on 19 January 2020. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and first referred to it as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. [3] [4] The WHO ended the PHEIC on 5 May 2023. [5]
During an influenza epidemic that occurred in England between 1557 and 1559, five per cent of the population – about 150,000 – died from the infection. The mortality rate was nearly five times that of the 1918–19 pandemic. [48] The first pandemic that was reliably recorded began in July 1580 and swept across Europe, Africa, and Asia. [57]
With the coronavirus pandemic still a global crisis affecting millions of lives, it may seem like a strange time to be thinking about what the next pandemic might be. But John Oliver thinks now ...
The first known case was recorded on 12 December. [101] The first case outside China was in Thailand on 13 January. [102] WHO adopted the name of the disease as "coronavirus disease 2019" (COVID-19) on 11 February 2020, and used "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" for the virus. [103]
The COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Europe with its first confirmed case in Bordeaux, France, on 24 January 2020, and subsequently spread widely across the continent. By 17 March 2020, every country in Europe had confirmed a case, [ 315 ] and all had reported at least one death, with the exception of Vatican City .