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Environmental impacts. The sharp and lasting decline in planned air travel throughout the pandemic had a beneficial effect of global climate change. [149] The effects of COVID-19 lockdowns were subject of the first quantitative research on large-scale modal shifts and demand reduction in aviation. [150]
Flattening the curve is a public health strategy to slow down the spread of an epidemic, used against the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The curve being flattened is the epidemic curve, a visual representation of the number of infected people needing health care over time. During an epidemic, a health care ...
United States of Africa. All African states are members of the African Union. The United States of Africa is a concept of a federation of some or all of the 54 sovereign states and two disputed states on the continent of Africa. The concept takes its origin from Marcus Garvey 's 1924 poem "Hail, United States of Africa".
The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic . The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 16 November 2019. [2]
African time (or Africa time) is the perceived cultural tendency in parts of Africa and the Caribbean [1] toward a more relaxed attitude to time. [2] [3] This is sometimes used in a pejorative sense, about tardiness in appointments, meetings and events. [4] This also includes the more leisurely, relaxed, and less rigorously scheduled lifestyle ...
The United Nations headquarters has been situated along the East River in Midtown Manhattan since 1952; in 1945, the United States was a founding member of the UN. The United States has an established structure of foreign relations, and it has the world's second-largest diplomatic corps as of 2024.
A year into the pandemic, a half-million Americans (1 out of every 670 Americans) had died of COVID-19. [1] Many people were affected by grief and loss. By the time a half-million Americans had died, one-third of Americans participating in a survey said they personally knew someone who had died this way. (The figures may have been lower due to ...
An October 2020 poll from the Central European Institute of Asian Studies had more than half of Swedish respondents agreeing that COVID-19 spread due to Chinese people eating bats and other wild animals, which was a higher percentage than the other 12 European countries surveyed.