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This is a list of notable people reported as having died from coronavirus disease 2019 , as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [356] it...
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As of December 2019, 2,468 cases of MERS-CoV infection had...
- COVID-19 pandemic deaths
This article contains the monthly cumulative number of deaths from the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) reported by each country, territory, and subnational area to the World Health Organization (WHO) and published in WHO reports, tables, and spreadsheets.
- Unconfirmed Reports of Early Cases
- October and November
- 1 December
- 8 December
- 10 December
- 15 December
- 16 December
- 24 December
- 27 December
- 29 December
A September 2020 review noted the hypothetical possibility that the COVID-19 infection had already spread to Europe in 2019 by presumptive evidences including pneumonia case numbers and radiology in France and Italy in November and December.However, a subsequent retrospective surveillance report determined there was no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 circul...
According to an ABC news report, the American National Center for Medical Intelligence shared intelligence in late November, based on analysis of wire and computer intercepts and satellite images, regarding a potential respiratory disease in Wuhan. This was denied by the Pentagon. On 13 March 2020, the South China Morning Postreported that Chinese ...
Symptoms of the index case, or patient zero, began on 1 December. The man had not been to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. His family was unaffected, and no epidemiological link was found between him and the other laboratory-confirmed cases as of 2 January.
First hospitalizations
This was the onset of the first 41 people who were tested and later confirmed positive for COVID-19, as reported by the Wuhan City Health Committee and the WHO in 2020.
Symptoms of three more cases began on 10 December, which were later confirmed by laboratories. These patients are known because they became hospitalized on 16 December and thus sampled. Their results were confirmed two of these three had no direct exposure to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, while the other did.
The fifth and sixth cases that were later confirmed by laboratories first felt symptoms on 15 December. Both patients had direct exposure to the Huanan Market.
As of February 2020[update], the first documented COVID-19 hospital admissions worldwide were dated to 16 December 2019 in Wuhan.
An unresolved clinical case sparks off the first scientific involvement: a bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL) sample was sent from Wuhan Central Hospital to Vision Medicals (广州微远基因科技) in Guangzhou, a private company specializing in metagenomic massive parallel sequencing analysis. According to the GenBank record, the sample was obtained 23 December...
First novel disease report
According to news reports in February 2020—Workers Daily, Global Times—at the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine and following the report from Doctor Zhang Jixian, the hospital immediately alerted the local CDC, Wuhan Jianghan Disease Prevention and Control Center,however, the report of 22 January 2020 from the Chinese CDC seems to claim this contact falling on 29 December.
On this day and the previous, three similar cases arrived at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, all associated with the seafood market. The health authorities had been informed, and medical experts from Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, "a hospital designated to treat infectious diseases" came to transfer six of the seven...
COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [356] it was the third-leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [357] 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. [358]
- 6,956,160 (reported), 17.5–31.4 million (estimated)
- Worldwide
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Severe acute respiratory syndromecoronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2)
COVID-19 portal. v. t. e. This article contains the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths per population as of 14 May 2024, by country. It also has cumulative death totals by country. For these numbers over time see the tables, graphs, and maps at COVID-19 pandemic deaths and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory .
As of 16 May 2024, the pandemic has caused 7,047,396 confirmed deaths, making it the fifth-deadliest pandemic or epidemic in history. The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is a global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Jun 18, 2020 · The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in 5,817,385 reported cases and 362,705 deaths worldwide through May, 30, 2020, † including 1,761,503 aggregated reported cases and 103,700 deaths in the United States. § Previous analyses during February–early April 2020 indicated that age ≥65 years and underlying health ...
