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  2. Coronavirus - Wikipedia

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    The earliest reports of a coronavirus infection in animals occurred in the late 1920s, when an acute respiratory infection of domesticated chickens emerged in North America. [15] Arthur Schalk and M.C. Hawn in 1931 made the first detailed report which described a new respiratory infection of chickens in North Dakota.

  3. COVID-19 vaccination mandates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal mandates. In September 2021, Biden announced the Biden administration COVID-19 action plan, a six-point plan of new measures to help control the pandemic, which included new executive orders and regulatory actions to effectively mandate vaccination for COVID-19 among a large swath of the American workforce.

  4. American Red Cross - Wikipedia

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    The American National Red Cross[ 5 ] is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States. Clara Barton founded the organization in 1881 after initially learning of the Red Cross from the country of Switzerland. Barton resigned in 1904 with Mabel ...

  5. History of coronavirus - Wikipedia

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    The history of coronaviruses is an account of the discovery of the diseases caused by coronaviruses and the diseases they cause. It starts with the first report of a new type of upper-respiratory tract disease among chickens in North Dakota, U.S., in 1931. The causative agent was identified as a virus in 1933.

  6. Statistics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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    The CDC publishes official numbers of COVID-19 cases in the United States. The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The ...

  7. COVID-19 pandemic in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Weekly confirmed COVID-19 deaths Map of cumulative COVID-19 death rates by U.S. state [8] On December 31, 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The first American case was reported on January 20, [9] and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency on January 31. [10]

  8. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (2020 ...

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    By late November 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 had broken out in Wuhan, China. [2]As reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases on November 30, 2020, 7,389 blood samples collected between December 13, 2019, and January 17, 2020, by the American Red Cross from normal donors in nine states (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin ...

  9. SARS-CoV-2 - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) [2] is a strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] The virus previously had the provisional name 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), [4][5][6][7] and has also been called human coronavirus 2019 (HCoV-19 or ...