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    Descriptive epidemiology searches for patterns by examining characteristics of person, place, & time.

    descriptive
    epidemiology, answers the following questions about disease, injury, or environmental hazard occurrence:

    What?

     Coronaviruses are important human and animal pathogens.


     At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in
    Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China.
     As the virus continued to spread on January, 9th 2020 the China CDC reported a novel coronavirus as the
    causative agent of this outbreak, which is phylogenetically in the SARS-CoV clade. The disease associated
    with the virus is referred to as novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

    How much?

     Globally, more than a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported.
     As of April, 6th 2020 the United States has 330,891 coronavirus cases.
     Florida alone has over 13,000 cases.

    When?

     In December 2019 three patients in Wuhan, China were reported to the WHO due to an unusual type of
    pneumonia. On January 7th WHO officials announced they identified a new virus (COVID-19).
     By January 13th, 2020 the first case outside of china had been reported in Thailand.
     In February 2020, several cases had been confirmed in India, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the
    United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Singapore, the US, the UAE and Vietnam.
     On March 11th, 2020 the CDC declared a global pandemic of Covid-19.

    Where?

     As of today Covid-19 is in every single country of the world. With a total of 1,272,122 cases worldwide.
    The united states currently has the largest number of cases as well with over 336,437 cases.
    Among whom?

     According to the CDC everyone of all ages, genders, and ethnicity’s is vulnerable to the Coronavirus.
    However certain populations are at a higher risk for severe illness from the disease. Those include; Adults
    over the age of 65, people with asthma, people with underlying medical condition such as diabetes,
    autoimmune diseases, obesity, and liver or kidney disease.

    References:

     https://www.uptodate.com/contents/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19#H1963533542
     https://www.cdc.gov/eis/field-epi-manual/chapters/Describing-Epi-Data.html
     https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/fact-sheet/coronavirus-tracker/

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