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Li Wenliang (Chinese: 李文亮; 12 October 1985 – 7 February 2020) was a Chinese ophthalmologist who warned his colleagues about early COVID-19 infections in Wuhan. [3]On 30 December 2019, Wuhan Centres for Disease Prevention and Control (Wuhan CDC) issued emergency warnings to local hospitals about a number of mysterious "pneumonia" cases discovered in the city in the previous week. [4]
This is a list of notable people reported as having died either from coronavirus disease 2019 or post COVID-19 , as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID-19 pandemic.
Carlo Urbani (Italian: [ˈkarlo urˈbaːni] ⓘ; 19 October 1956 – 29 March 2003) was an Italian physician and microbiologist and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as probably a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, [1] [2] and his early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered a swift and global response credited with saving numerous lives.
February 2020. Feb. 10: Worldwide deaths from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus exceeded 1,000, topping the number killed by the 2002-2003 outbreak of SARS.
He was the first to grow certain cold viruses (rhinoviruses) using nasal epithelial cells. He published a series of papers on his new technique in The Lancet in 1960. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] With researchers from University College London , he also investigated the role of human parvovirus B19 during 1985–1987.
The chief of critical care at a Baltimore hospital who helped treat the "sickest" patients died on Saturday of the coronavirus. Doctor who 'selflessly' cared for 'sickest patients' dies of coronavirus
The United States and South Korea each reported their first confirmed case of the coronavirus to the World Health Organization on 20 January. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] US CDC developed its own testing kit after China shared the genetic sequence on 10 January and deployed it to detect the first coronavirus case.
Jack Cline and Michael Gulick were part of a group of 10 nurses who were suspended with pay from Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif.