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The CDC publishes official numbers of COVID-19 cases in the United States. The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The ...
January 22. On January 22, the U.S. passed 25 million cases, with one of every 13 Americans testing positive for COVID-19. [24] January 24. On January 24, the Capitol Police announced that 38 police officers have tested positive for COVID-19 since the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol. [25] January 25.
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
For even more international statistics in table, graph, and map form see COVID-19 pandemic by country. COVID-19 pandemic is the worst-ever worldwide calamity experienced on a large scale (with an estimated 7 million deaths) in the 21st century. The COVID-19 death toll is the highest seen on a global scale since the Spanish flu and World War II.
It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [44] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. [45] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose, [46] and life expectancy fell. [47]
Initial estimates of the basic reproduction number (R 0) for COVID-19 in January 2020 were between 1.4 and 2.5, [58] but a subsequent analysis claimed that it may be about 5.7 (with a 95 percent confidence interval of 3.8 to 8.9). [59] In December 2021, the number of cases continued to climb due to several factors, including new COVID-19 variants.
[1] [2] [3] As of 27 October 2024, 776,617,327 [4] cases have been stated by government agencies from around the world to be confirmed. Of the 248 recognized countries and territories around the world, 229 have reported cases of COVID-19 [5]. For more international statistics in table and map form, see COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory.
e. This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in 2019, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 known to have been identified were in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019. It marked the beginning of the 2019–2020 COVID ...