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January 20, 2023 is the third anniversary of the first confirmed case of new coronavirus pneumonia in the United States.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization's technical lead for the coronavirus response, said this week that the virus still had no predictable patterns.
Van Kerkhove said in an interview with the "Health Care Conversation" podcast: "There should not be such severe death and destruction, but it is being dealt with and we are doing our best to minimize the impact in the future."
On January 20, 2020, the first case of new coronary pneumonia in the United States was diagnosed in Snohomish County, north of Seattle, Washington. The case is a man in his 30s who had just returned from Wuhan. The case was announced to the public the next day.
At the time, official statistics showed that the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 had sickened hundreds of people and killed six people in Asia, but information about the virus and testing was extremely limited.
Later research found evidence that the virus had emerged in the United States at least weeks before the first case was diagnosed.
According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, more than 668 million cases of new coronavirus infection have been reported worldwide since January 2020, with the United States accounting for nearly 1/7.
Johns Hopkins said the United States has reported 102 million cases, more than any other country. Health officials note that these numbers may be an underestimate.
Meanwhile, more than 6.7 million people have died from COVID-19 infection globally, with the United States reporting nearly 1.1 million deaths.
According to preliminary data from Johns Hopkins University, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in both 2020 and 2021. After the 2022 data is released, COVID-19 is likely to become the third leading cause of death again.
This month, the Biden administration once again extended the COVID-19 public health emergency, a provision that gives the government the power to respond to the epidemic.
WHO's Van Kerkhove said she believes 2023 could be the year that COVID-19 is no longer considered a public health emergency in the United States and around the world, but more work will need to be done to do that, and the transition to longer-term management of respiratory disease outbreaks will take more time.
"We're just not using (vaccines) most effectively around the world. I mean, there's still 30% of the world who haven't received a vaccine," Van Kerkhove said. "In every country in the world, including the United States, we lack critical accurate statistics on vaccinated populations."
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