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January 22 (GMT)

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  • 6,305 new cases and 75 new deaths in Iran [source]
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  • 4,232 new cases and 117 new deaths in Peru [source]
  • 44,357 new cases and 404 new deaths in Spain. Data are provisional and subject to change. Cumulative case data up to January 15, 2021 reflect the latest release of the official "Historical Series of Cases by Autonomous Community" dataset by the Ministry of Health [source]. From January16 onward, the values for daily new cases are based on an analysis of newly reported cases. weekly case figures (column 5), and previous revisions provided by the Ministry of Health. Since the validation process takes time to complete, cases are expected to be revised retroactively once the weekly historical dataset is published by the Ministry of Health on Thursday, January 28. [source] [source]
  • 6,231 new cases and 93 new deaths in Iran [source]
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  • 5,461 new cases and 113 new deaths in Peru [source]
  • 2,485 new cases and 60 new deaths in Ireland. Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 3 cases and 1 death. The figures of 179324 cases and 2768 deaths reflect this. [source]
  • 41,576 new cases and 464 new deaths in Spain. Data are provisional and subject to change. Data up to Dec. 18 reflects the latest release of the official "Historical Series of Cases by Autonomous Community" dataset by the Ministry of Health [source]. [source]
  • 6,182 new cases and 84 new deaths in Iran [source]
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  • 4,412 new cases and 113 new deaths in Peru [source]
  • 23,608 new cases and 441 new deaths in France. French Government reported 656 new deaths, of which 287 deaths in EMS and EHAPD and 369 deaths in hospitals. Worldometer redistributed the 287 reported deaths in EMS and EHPAD over the 4 day period since the last report on Jan 15. [source] [source]
  • 34,291 new cases and 404 new deaths in Spain. Data are provisional and subject to change. Data up to Dec. 18 reflects the latest release of the official "Historical Series of Cases by Autonomous Community" dataset by the Ministry of Health [source]. [source]
  • 5,917 new cases and 87 new deaths in Iran [source]
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  • 3,893 new cases and 60 new deaths in Peru [source]
  • 8,185 new cases and 425 new deaths in Argentina. "As of today, the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe reported deaths arising from the crossing of bases (of hospitals, civil registry and other bases provinces) generating an increase in the number of deaths reported regularly" [source] [source]
  • 2,117 new cases and 8 new deaths in Ireland. Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 4 cases. The figure of 174843 cases reflects this. [source]
  • 33,800 new cases and 151 new deaths in Spain. Data are provisional and subject to change. Data up to Dec. 18 reflects the latest release of the official "Historical Series of Cases by Autonomous Community" dataset by the Ministry of Health [source]. [source]
  • 5,806 new cases and 83 new deaths in Iran [source]
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  • 4,342 new cases and 101 new deaths in Peru [source]
  • 6,016 new cases and 86 new deaths in Iran [source]
  • 4,342 new cases and 101 new deaths in Peru [source]
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  • United States President Trump: Mobilizing military to 'rapidly' distribute coronavirus vaccine when it’s ready [source]. The announcement comes as the Department of Defense has awarded a contract for prefilled syringes for future COVID-19 vaccine: more than 100 million syringes for distribution across the United States by year-end 2020, with the "ultimate production goal of over 500 million prefilled syringes (doses) in 2021." [source] 
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  • A 5-year-old died in New York City on Thursday from what appeared to be a rare syndrome linked to the coronavirus that causes life-threatening inflammation in children [learn more] [study], New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said [source] This is at least the second death reported worldwide so far after that of a 14-year-old boy in England, according to a study published on May 7 in the journal Lancet [source]. On April 27, the UK NHS had alerted about the new illness, with at least 12 children in the UK requiring intensive care, and an estimated "4.5 cases for every 100,000 children under the age of 18 in the UK" [source]. One of the first reported cases of the illness in the US, a healthy 12-yea-old in Louisiana, almost died a few weeks ago [source]. Between  April 17 and May 1, 15 children were hospitalized in New Yor City for the new illness [source]
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The Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from Pandemic Influenza, by Moore, Lipsitch, Barry, Osterholm - COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint, April 30, 2020: [source pdf] [about]
  • The length of the pandemic will likely be 18 to 24 months
  • Given the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2, 60% to 70% of the population may need to be immune to reach a critical threshold of herd immunity to halt the pandemic
  • This may be complicated by the fact that we don’t yet know the duration of immunity to natural SARS-CoV-2 infection. Based on seasonal coronaviruses, we can anticipate that even if immunity declines after exposure, there may still be some protection against disease severity and reduced contagiousness, but this remains to be assessed for SARS-CoV-2.
3 Scenarios following the first wave of COVID-19 in spring 2020:
  • Scenario 1: a series of repetitive smaller waves that occur through the summer and then consistently over a 1-to 2-year period, gradually diminishing sometime in 2021
  • Scenario 2:  a larger wave in the fall or winter of 2020 and one or more smaller subsequent waves in 2021
  • Scenario 3:  a “slow burn” of ongoing transmission and case occurrence, but without a clear wave pattern.
Whichever scenario the pandemic follows (assuming at least some level of ongoing mitigation measures), we must be prepared for at least another 18 to 24 months of significant COVID-19 activity
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Archived: February 2020 Coronavirus News Updates

Age and conditions of Coronavirus cases

Patient who died in the Philippines was a 44-year old male

The patient who died in the Philippines on February 2, in what was the first death occurring outside of China, was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan who was admitted on Jan. 25 after experiencing fever, cough, and sore throat, before developing severe pneumonia. In the last few days, “the patient was stable and showed signs of improvement, however, the condition of the patient deteriorated within his last 24 hours resulting in his demise." according to the Philippine Department of Health.

Serious Cases of 30 year old patients in France

Age and Sex of the first deaths as reported by the China National Health Commission (NHC)

WHO Risk Assessment: Global Emergency

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