UPDATE:
It's come to my attention that a significant part of the population has no idea how many people die from influenza every year, fully separate from COVID-19.
People are, in fact, going so far as to ignore standard Pneumonia precautions, focusing only on COVID-19, as if the mortality rate between the two is so wide that Pneumonia is something to safely disregard.
There is only an approximate 11.45% difference in the mortality rates and there are weeks when Pneumonia mortality rate surpasses COVID-19 mortality rate.
This is the way Pneumonia's annual average mortality rate has always been throughout the centuries since Pneumonia was first tracked.
The CDC charts it, so beginning with 2022, I've added the mortality rate for Pneumonia.
March 15 - CDC Footnotes: "On March 15, 2022, data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories."
The total mortality count is now reduced by approximately 70,000.
March 12
2,600
2,731
March 5
4,074
3,912
Feb. 26
6,684
5,748
Feb. 24. Russia invades Ukraine.
Feb. 19
10,187
7,929
Feb. 12
13,863
10,001
Feb. 5
17,468
12,262
Jan. 29
19,877
13,381
Jan. 22
20,357
13,619
Jan. 22 - The John Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences releases a report stating that Lockdowns across Europe and the United States caused more death and damage than COVID-19, while doing virtually nothing to prevent deaths and infection from the virus.
Jan. 21 - CDC cautiously reports a possible 0.0% mortality rate from COVID-19 Omicron Variant (B.1.1.529). TESSy cautiously reports a possible 0.06% mortality rate from COVID-19 Omicron Variant (B.1.1.529).
Jan. 20 - Joe Biden is sworn in as President of the United States of America.
Jan. 15
18,359
13,003
Jan. 8
14,597
11,394
Jan. 1
11,472
9,866
2021
Week ending date in which deaths occurred
All deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1
Dec. 25
10,323
Dec. 18
10,132
Dec. 17 - CDC lists Omicron Variant as a "Variant of Concern". Global Case fatality rate is tracked at 0.0%
Dec. 11
9,645
Dec. 4
8,727
Nov. 27
7,836
Nov. 26 - WHO recognizes Omicron Variant. World Case fatality rate is tracked at 0.0%
Nov. 20
7,268
Nov. 13
7,131
Nov. 6
7,236
Oct. 30
7,940
Oct. 23
8,902
Oct. 16
9,812
Oct. 9
11,104
Oct. 2
12,804
Sep. 25
14,313
Sep. 18
15,200
Sep. 11
15,404
Sep. 4
15,483
Aug. 30 - The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine for people ages 16 years and over.
Aug. 28
14,176
Aug. 21
12,180
Aug. 14
9,397
Aug. 7
6,490
July 31
4,120
July 24
2,766
July 17
1,991
July 10
1,645
July 3
1,545
June 26
1,635
June 19
1,779
June 15 - CDC lists Delta Variant as a "Variant of concern".
June 12
2,038
June 5
2,349
May 31 - WHO recognizes Delta Variant. World Case fatality rate is tracked at 0.3%.
June 1 - Delta Variant, first identified in India in late 2020, becomes dominant variant and kicks off third wave of infections in the summer of 2021.
May 29
2,773
May 22
3,238
May 15
3,691
May 8
4,006
May 1
4,170
April 24
4,602
April 21 - U.S. surpasses 200 million vaccines administered.
April 17
4,448
April 10
4,315
April 3
4,203
March 27
4,452
March 20
4,906
March 13
5,727
March 13 - U.S. surpasses 100 million vaccines administered.
March 6
6,730
Feb. 27
8,665
Feb. 20
10,825
Feb. 13
13,536
Feb. 6
17,051
Jan. 30
20,349
Jan. 25 - First U.S. case of Brazil variant of coronavirus reported in Minnesota.
Jan. 28 - First U.S. case of South African variant of coronavirus reported in South Carolina.
Jan. 23
23,714
Jan. 16
25,730
Jan. 9
26,011
Jan. 2
24,884
Dec 30 - First case of UK variant of coronavirus reported in Colorado.
2020
Week ending date in which deaths occurred
All deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1
Dec. 26
23,386
Dec. 19
22,330
Dec. 12
20,925
Dec. 5
18,570
Nov. 28
15,626
Nov. 21
13,360
Nov. 14
10,653
Nov. 7
8,763
Oct. 31
7,027
Oct. 24
5,996
Oct. 17
5,201
Oct. 10
4,822
Oct. 3
4,244
Sep. 26
4,301
Sep. 19
4,279
Sep. 12
4,627
Sep. 5
5,019
Aug. 29
5,753
Aug. 22
6,388
Aug. 15
7,263
Aug. 8
7,870
Aug. 1
8,307
July 25
8,247
July 18
7,197
July 11
5,785
July 4
4,552
June 27
3,844
June 20
3,851
June 13
4,232
June 6
5,058
May 30
6,172
May 23
7,248
May 16
9,238
May 9
11,237
May 2
13,217
April 25
15,551
April 18
17,206
April 11
16,330
April 4
10,134
March 28
3,217
March 26 - U.S. Senate passes the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
March 21
588
March 14
60
March 11 - World Health Organization (WHO) declares COVID-19 a pandemic.
March 13 - President Donald J. Trump declares a nationwide emergency.
March 14 - CDC issues a "No Sail Order" to all cruise ships in waters that the U.S. has jurisdiction over.
March 7
38
Feb. 29
9
Feb. 23 - Italy becomes global COVID-19 hotspot. Italian government effectively locks down the country.
Feb. 26 - During a telebriefing, CDC's Dr. Nancy Messonnier, Incident Manager for the COVID-19 Response
, states that the "disruption to everyday life may be severe".
Feb. 29 - CDC and FDA announce new policies for Guide Evaluation and Testing of Patients Under Investigation (PUI), and for certain laboratories to develop and begin use of validated COVID-19 diagnostics before the FDA has complete review of their EUA.
Feb. 22
6
Feb. 15
5
Feb. 11 - WHO announces official name for the disease that is causing the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak: COVID-19.
Feb. 8
4
Feb. 3 - CDC submits Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) PACK to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expedite approval for the CDC developed SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test
Feb. 4 - FDA approves the EUA PACK. CDC distributes 200 test kits through its Influenze Reagent Resource program to laboratories across the U.S.
Feb. 8 - Public Health laboratory in NYC, NY reports that the test produces "untrustworthy results".
Feb. 1
0
Jan. 29 - The White House Coronavirus Task Force is established with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Azar as the head of the Task Force.
Jan. 31 - WHO reconvenes and declares coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, declares
the SARS-CoV-2 virus a public health emergency and the White House 2019 Novel Coronavirus Task Force announces the implementation of new travel policies to be effective at 5:00PM EST on Feb. 2, 2020
Jan. 22 - World Health Organization International Health Regulation Emergency Committee meets. Decides not to declare the novel coronavirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Committee chooses to monitor the cituation and reconvene in 10 days to re-discuss. WHO confirms human-to-human spread of the novel coronavirus.
Jan. 25
2
Jan. 22 - World Health Organization (WHO) International Health Regulation Emergency Committee meets. Decides not to declare the novel coronavirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Committee chooses to monitor the cituation and reconvene in 10 days to re-discuss. WHO confirms human-to-human spread of the novel coronavirus.
Jan. 18
2
Jan. 13 - Thailand Ministry of Public Health confirms imported case of lab confirmed Wuhan-Hu-1 novel coronavirus from China.
Jan. 17 - CDC begins screening passengers on direct and connecting flights from Wuhan, China at San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, and Los Angeles, CA. and plans to expand screening to other major airports.
Jan. 11
1
Jan. 5 - Chinese public health officials shared the genetic sequence unknown pneumonia virus (Wuhan-Hu-1) through an online database.
Jan. 7 - CDC establishes a 2019-nCoV Incident Management Structure to guide response in Wuhan, China of to Wuhan-Hu-1.
UPDATES:As of January 24, 2022
The astonishing spread of the Omicron variant could help set the stage for the pandemic to transition from overwhelming to manageable in Europe this year, a top health official said on Monday, potentially offering the world a glimpse at how countries can ease restrictions while keeping the virus at bay.
Full story at The New York Times.
As of December 01, 2021
First detected on November 22 in Botswana laboratories and reported by South Africa to WHO on November 24, the latest variant of COVID-19 or
SARS-CoV-2, is named Omicron (variant B.1.1.529) on November 26. WHO labels it a "Variant of concern" on the advice of their TAG-VE.
As of November 13, 2021
The CDC, which since July 2021 has virtually left the 2020 death toll counts alone excluding minor single digit tweaks, began reshuffling the 2020 mortality rate in earnest, although nothing that comes close to the allegedly high numbers Anthony Fauci (Head of NIAID) and Bob Anderson (Chief chief of NVSS) claimed the previous president suppressed. Since the arrival of the new administration, there have been no major leaps in the overall death count of 2020 despite the fact that the head of CDC announced they'd counted the numbers but were not allowed to reveal them under Trump.
As of August, 2021
The Delta Variant aka India Variant, was first classified in India on May 31, 2021. It's one of three variants from lineage B.1.617 of COVID-19. It's theorized to be responsible for the February 2021 second wave of COVID-19 deaths in that country. It was first identified by multiple sources in the U.S. in August.
As of September 11, 2021
Evidence builds that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan, China lab. It's the only theory with any supporting evidence behind it. Despite the U.S. Media and Facebook's contrary reporting, there remains no science research or evidence to refute this. In fact, as of this writing, there was never evidence to substantiate a counter claim, according to WSJ and MIT, despite claims by the U.S. Media.
As of May 24, 2021, the CDC has yet again decided that no deaths in the U.S. happened in the week of Jan. 4. This following news that the long labeled "Conspiracy Theory Hoax" of COVID-19 originating in a Wuhan, China lab is still the only theory that has any supporting evidence behind it. Further, there was never any science research that conclusively proved otherwise. In fact, as of this writing, there is no evidence to substantiate a counter claim, according to WSJ and MIT.*
"The WHO-led team that visited Wuhan concluded in a joint report with Chinese experts in March that the virus most likely spread from bats to humans via another animal, and that a laboratory leak was "extremely unlikely."
However, team members said they didn't view raw data or original lab, safety and other records. On the same day the report came out, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the team hadn't adequately examined the lab leak hypothesis, and called for a fuller probe of the idea."
As of July 3, 2021, the CDC has decided that the death of Patient 0 in the U.S.A. DID NOT occur on Jan. 4, but one week later on Jan. 11, seven days before China reported their first COVID-19 death on Jan. 18.
As of May 18, 2021, the CDC decided that the death of Patient 0 in the U.S.A. DID occur on Jan. 4, thirteen days before China reported their first COVID-19 death on Jan. 18.
As of April 3, 2021, the CDC decided that Patient 0 in the U.S.A. DID NOT occur on Jan. 4, but two weeks later in the week of Jan. 18 with three separate Patient Zeros.
As of Dec. 15, 2020
COVID-19 Vaccines were administered in the U.S., with health-care workers and older people living in health facilities getting the first of the 2.9 million doses already manufactured.
Mutiple media sources report that the first COVID-19 death did not occur in the U.S. until February 3, 2020, but as of April 2021, CDC maintains that C-19 deaths occurred in January.
NYT reports that the first death by COVID-19 in China happened on Jan. 11, 2020. CDC reports three deaths in the U.S. by Jan. 18, 2020. NYT maintains that the first death in the U.S. did not happen until Feb. 29, 2020 - Leap Year day. NYT also maintains that, due to the inherent incompetence of the Chinese Government, precautions, cautions, and other measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 were intentionally bungled by the Chinese bureacracy. A Timeline of the Coronavirus Pandemic (Way Back Machine at archive.org).
This is not meant to be either a damning or glib statement regarding conflicting news from various sources. What's important to remember is that no one source has all the answers and believing otherwise is a matter of faith. The spread of such faith in single sources for news leads to misinformation.
Throughout the 17 months of doing this graph, and the 10 months of making it public here, I arbitrarily locked the updates whenever I felt a curious change took place. Please note that my curiousity factor in archiving these frozen moments is due to my personal filter and so empirical.
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