3 Years of Coronavirus
Jan. 30th, 2023 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerToday's the 3rd anniversary of Coronavirus. Well, not the anniversary but an anniversary. It's been 3 years since I first wrote about Coronavirus in my blog on January 30, 2020. (For those who are wondering, the 3 year anniversary of the first human case came in December, and the 3 year anniversary of the first "lockdown" arrives in a few weeks.)
How do things look now vs. then? The most striking difference comparing the blog I wrote 3 years ago to today is how back then it wasn't clear that Covid-19, as we'd come to know it— that name wasn't coined yet!— would become a global pandemic. Previous outbreaks of Coronavirus-family diseases, SARS and MERS, in the 00s and 10s caused fewer than 10,000 cases each. Today, after 3 years, Covid-19 has caused an estimated 753,000,000 cases! (Source: WHO Coronavirus Dashboard, retrieved 30 Jan 2023.)
How do things look now vs. then? The most striking difference comparing the blog I wrote 3 years ago to today is how back then it wasn't clear that Covid-19, as we'd come to know it— that name wasn't coined yet!— would become a global pandemic. Previous outbreaks of Coronavirus-family diseases, SARS and MERS, in the 00s and 10s caused fewer than 10,000 cases each. Today, after 3 years, Covid-19 has caused an estimated 753,000,000 cases! (Source: WHO Coronavirus Dashboard, retrieved 30 Jan 2023.)
