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COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [360] it was the third-leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [361] From 2019 to 2020, US life expectancy dropped by 3 years for Hispanic Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. [362]
In December 2019, a pneumonia outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. [119] On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, [120] which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization, [121] [122] [123] later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 17 November 2019. [2]
Signs of flu in wastewater on the rise, too. Nationally, the amount of influenza A virus in the nation's wastewater has risen from low to moderate, over the week ending Dec. 14, according to the ...
As the coronavirus pandemic stretches into its ninth month, some industries are thriving. Many Americans are working remotely these days and, as ties, business suits, and high heels have given way ...
The most recent COVID-19 vaccine should offer protection against the XEC variant, Russo says. “The most recent version of the vaccine seems to be reasonably well-matched,” he says.
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 ...
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.