Our Pandemic Year—A COVID-19 Timeline. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2, a pandemic. The announcement followed a rising sense of alarm in the preceding months over a new, potentially lethal virus that was swiftly spreading around the world.
The Next Pandemic: Prepare for "Disease X". The COVID-19 pandemic will, slowly, and with some hiccups and many tragedies, pass into memory. This coronavirus may disappear and later recur, continue endemically under vaccine control, or simply attenuate and vanish. 1 The economy and healthcare systems will return to a new normal, some parts
The first cholera pandemic emerged out of the Ganges Delta with an outbreak in Jessore, India, in 1817, stemming from contaminated rice. The disease quickly spread throughout most of India, modernDisease experts use the term "pandemic" to describe when an epidemic has become rampant in multiple countries and continents simultaneously. (The term comes from the Greek word "pan iCt2.