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On 10 January 2020, Li Wenliang, Chinese ophthalmologist and coronavirus whistleblower, started having symptoms of a dry cough. On 12 January 2020, Wenliang started having a fever. He was admitted to the hospital on 14 January 2020. His parents also contracted the coronavirus (presumably from Wenliang) and were admitted to the hospital with him.
January 2020 was the first month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Wednesday , ended on a Friday after 31 days. It was the first month of the 2020s decade , and it was also the first month of the COVID-19 outbreak , which was declared a public health emergency by World Health Organization on January 30, 2020.
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.
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 per cent 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.
The Senate will now depart for the holidays, and return on January 3, 2025, when the 119th Congress will be sworn in. -ABC News' Allison Pecorin Dec 20, 10:56 PM
At the beginning of the pandemic to early June 2020, Democratic-led states had higher case rates than Republican-led states, while in the second half of 2020, Republican-led states saw higher case and death rates than states led by Democrats. As of mid-2021, states with tougher policies generally had fewer COVID cases and deaths {needs update}.
By late November 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 had broken out in Wuhan, China. [2]As reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases on November 30, 2020, 7,389 blood samples collected between December 13, 2019, and January 17, 2020, by the American Red Cross from normal donors in nine states (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin ...
This article contains the number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019 reported by each country and territory to the World Health Organization in January 2020 and published in the latter's daily 'situation reports'. [1] For other months see COVID-19 pandemic cases. There is also a column there listing the date of the first case for each country.