Coronavirus particle, greatly magnified. The term "corona" means "crown," referring to the spikes on the edge which resemble a crown, giving the virus its name.



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A Comparison of COVID-19 with Other Disease Outbreaks

Year
Disease
Numbers Affected
Deaths
1918
Influenza Pandemic

 ?
 30 to 50 million
50 to 100 million
1980's
HIV / AIDS 1

 60 million
 30 million
2002
SARS
(Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)

 8,000
 800
2009
Swine Flu
(H1N1 Virus)
Global

 ?
 203,000 world-wide (?) 2
Range: 151,700 - 575,400

2009-2010
Swine Flu
(H1N1 Virus)
US Only

 60.8 million cases
274,000 hospitalizations
 12,400 deaths
2010
(this year alone)
Malaria

 219 million
 660,000
2012
(this year alone)
Tuberculosis

 8.6 million
 1.3 million
As of April 12, 2020
US alone
COVID-19
Wuhan Coronavirus

WHO (World Health Organization)

Situation Report 83


492,881
31,606
As of April 12, 2020
Global figures
Situation Report 83
COVID-19
Wuhan Coronavirus

WHO (World Health Organization)

1,696,588
(Previous tally,
April 11 = 1,610,909)

Situation Report 82


 105,952
(Previous tally,
April 11 = 99,690)

Situation Report 82
Annually
Influenza

 3 to 5 million 250,000 - 500,000


1  AIDS / HIV. In the US alone, 50,000 people become infected with HIV every year. At the end of 2009, 1.1 million people were living with HIV. Of these, 18% do not know they are infected. Globally, there were about 2.5 million new cases of HIV around the world. In 2010 there were 1.8 million deaths in people with AIDS. Source.

2  — 10 times higher than the first estimates based on the number of cases confirmed by lab tests, according to a new analysis by an international group of scientists.
 


Published by James T. Bartsch
WordExplain.com
Latest figures on Coronavirus as of 10:00 PM CST, April 12, 2020