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COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card: Image title: COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card: Author: CDC/NCIRD: Software used: Adobe InDesign CC 13.0 (Windows) Conversion program: Adobe PDF Library 15.0: Encrypted: no: Page size: 348 x 294 pts: Version of PDF format: 1.4
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19, also known as SARS-2) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, [7] fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste.
A COVID-19 vaccine is intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 . Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, an established body of knowledge existed about the structure and function of coronaviruses causing diseases like severe acute ...
This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in 2019, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 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.
The first COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and South Korea were identified at around the same time. [21] Critics say the U.S. government has botched the approval and distribution of test kits, losing crucial time during the early weeks of the outbreak, with the result that the true number of cases in the United States was impossible to estimate with ...
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 ...
Symptoms of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Image title: 316475: Author: CDC: Software used: Adobe InDesign 15.0 (Windows) Conversion program: Adobe PDF Library 15.0: Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) Version of PDF format: 1.4
The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history. [43] 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 ...