In this short paper I will argue that although information is known to be an important factor in fighting pandemics such as the novel coronavirus, international institutions failed to achieve this goal, while independent and social websites — Worldometer and Wikipedia — filled this role, at least partially. Nonetheless, it is important to create a global mechanism for collecting and publishing the relevant data. In the past few months the world is facing one of its biggest challenges — the novel coronavirus pandemic also known as COVID and nCov , that has by April 21 infected over two million people all over the world and killed more than , In a nutshell, the specific virus is new to the scientific and medical communities, and therefore they lack important knowledge regarding its attributes. In addition, although the exact numbers are yet to be determined, it seems that the virus is both contagious and causes medical complications and death in relative high scales. In the recent months scientists from diverse fields all over the world have been researching the new corona virus, trying to offer valuable observations regarding it and enhance the global fight against it.


World Population: Past, Present, and Future
COVID-19 Cases
The chart above illustrates how world population has changed throughout history. View the full tabulated data. At the dawn of agriculture, about B. Over the 8,year period up to 1 A. A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around for world population to reach one billion , the second billion was achieved in only years , the third billion in 30 years , the fourth billion in 15 years , and the fifth billion in only 13 years Wonder how big was the world's population when you were born? Check out this simple wizard or this more elaborated one to find out.
Growth Rate
The coronavirus COVID is affecting countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. The list of countries and territories and their continental regional classification is based on the United Nations Geoscheme. Sources are provided under "Latest Updates". Barth 90 77 13 9, 3, , 9, North America 3 St. If a death certificate is matched to a confirmed COVID case and that record in the MDSS does not indicate the individual died, the MDSS record is updated to indicate the death and the appropriate local health department is notified. These matched deaths are then included with mortality information posted to the Michigan Coronavirus website. Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted in the denotification of 28 cases. The figure of cases reflects this.
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