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Ongoing epidemics and pandemics are in boldface.For a given epidemic or pandemic, the average of its estimated death toll range is used for ranking. If the death toll averages of two or more epidemics or pandemics are equal, then the smaller the range, the higher the rank.
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, [ 316 ] and all had reported at least one death, with the exception of Vatican City .
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]
On 28 December 2019, Dr. Lili Ren, a virologist at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing submitted a complete sequence of SARS-CoV-2 structure to GenBank. The sequence was never made public as it failed to include the annotations required for publication, and attempts by the NIH to contact Dr. Ren went unanswered. [16]
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]
Biden stirred debate among health experts Monday after commenting to 60 minutes that the pandemic is over. ... entered a new phase of the pandemic. Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease expert ...
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 first American case was reported on January 20, [9] and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency on January 31. [10] Restrictions were placed on flights arriving from China, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] but the initial U.S. response to the pandemic was otherwise slow in terms of preparing the healthcare system ...