https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01897-3/fulltext
Understanding the spread of SARS-CoV-2, how and when evidence emerged, and the timing of local, national, regional, and global responses is essential to establish how an outbreak became a pandemic and to prepare for future health threats. With that aim, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response has developed a chronology of events, actions, and recommendations, from December

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01212-7
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced teachers and parents to quickly adapt to a new educational context: distance learning. Teachers developed online academic material while parents taught the

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1080702
COVID-19 is everywhere, literally, and during 2020 its spread and resulting impact has led to a global crisis of unprecedented reach and proportion. In a six-part series closing out this tumultuous year, UN News looks at the impact on people in every part of the world and some of the solutions that the United Nations has proposed to deal with the fall-out of the pandemic. In this first feature

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2021/03/05/in-their-own-words-americans-describe-the-struggles-and-silver-linings-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/
The outbreak has dramatically changed Americans' lives and relationships over the past year. We asked people to tell us about their experiences - good and bad - in living through this moment in history. Pew Research Center has been asking survey questions over the past year about Americans' views and reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2388929-lockdowns-and-face-masks-really-did-help-to-control-covid-19/
The main non-vaccine measures used to control the covid-19 pandemic - including lockdowns, face masks and test, trace and isolate - were effective at stemming the spread of the SARS-CoV-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States_(2021)
By September 15, one in every 500 Americans had died from COVID-19. September 18. On September 18, the U.S. passed 42 million cases. September 20. By September 20, COVID-19 had killed over 675,000 Americans, the estimated number of American deaths from the Spanish flu in 1918. As a result, COVID-19 became the deadliest respiratory pandemic in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [359] it was the third-leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [360] From 2019 to 2020, US life expectancy dropped by 3 years for Hispanic Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. [361]

https://theconversation.com/how-covid-19-lockdown-measures-and-their-outcomes-varied-in-cities-around-the-world-184682
The COVID-19 lockdowns were understandable as a public health measure in a time of insecurity and ignorance of the emerging disease threat. But we now know that they most deeply affected the poor

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
WHO dashboard of COVID-19 related recommendations . Research. Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) R&D Blueprint and COVID-19. ... Digital solutions & channels to help keep communities everywhere safe and informed during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Donors and partners.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02823-4
Scientists have been studying the effects of lockdowns during the pandemic in the hope that their findings could inform the response to future crises. They have reached some conclusions: countries

https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/43/2/e344/6158063
To live in the world is to adapt constantly. A year after COVID-19 pandemic has emerged, we have suddenly been forced to adapt to the 'new normal': work-from-home setting, parents home-schooling their children in a new blended learning setting, lockdown and quarantine, and the mandatory wearing of face mask and face shields in public.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/weighing-the-benefits-and-costs-of-covid-19-restrictions/
July 20, 2021 - Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers and the public have often vehemently disagreed about the pros and cons of restrictions such as lockdowns. Proponents of restrictions argue that they save lives; opponents say they destroy livelihoods. Amid these often nasty debates, researchers have been churning out benefit-cost analyses that aim to shed light on which

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34061685/
Abstract. COVID-19, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the 11th of March 2020, leading to some form of lockdown across almost all countries of the world. The extent of the global pandemic due to COVID-19 has a significant impact on our

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/14/870221574/global-photos-how-lockdown-has-changed-my-life
The images they submitted to NPR are a visual testament to the unforeseeable changes that came in 2020 as this virus swept the globe, triggering a pandemic that has altered the way we all live

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/covid19-coronavirus-pandemic-two-years-milestones/
These include the identification of COVID-19 and its classification as a pandemic, the development of vaccines and their roll-out, as well as the emergence of new variants of coronavirus. Amid the suffering and population lockdowns, there have been significant milestones in global cooperation. In the two years since the first case of COVID-19

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-timeline
BY KATHY KATELLA March 9, 2021. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2, a pandemic. The announcement followed a rising sense of alarm in the preceding months over a new, potentially lethal virus that was swiftly spreading around the world.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01618-w
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to rage in 2021, but this was increasingly an unequal pandemic, with rich countries receiving millions of doses of vaccine and ending lockdowns and travel bans. It

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
Explore the latest data and trends on the coronavirus pandemic across the world with interactive maps and charts from The New York Times.

https://www.who.int/news/item/02-03-2022-covid-19-pandemic-triggers-25-increase-in-prevalence-of-anxiety-and-depression-worldwide
Español. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25%, according to a scientific brief released by the World Health Organization (WHO) today. The brief also highlights who has been most affected and summarizes the effect of the pandemic on the availability of mental health

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/12/1108932
The UN health agency chief expressed optimism during a press briefing on Wednesday that 2022 maybe the year the world ends the acute stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. World Health Organization ( WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus reminded that it was two years ago, as people gathered for New Year's Eve celebrations, that a new global

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/omicron-covid-19-variant-12-16-21/index.html
On Wednesday, the state reported 1,126 new positive cases reported the day prior and 280 people currently hospitalized. The new mandates come as the first Omicron coronavirus variant case was

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04476-9
In September, US President Joe Biden remarked during an interview that the pandemic was over. Even Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55628488
China has had just under 100,000 recorded infections, with only around 4,800 deaths linked to Covid-19. In April 2020, Wuhan changed the way it reported Covid deaths, resulting in a spike