The COVID-19 pandemic – A global statistical interpretation in first year dynamics

The novel coronavirus, identified in December 2019, has caused a pandemic that will remain in the medical literature as SARS-CoV-2, the etiological agent of the Covid-19 disease. It was initially stated that this disease would not be more serious than the flu, in terms of prevalence, frequency of complications and mortality. Although in the country of origin the epidemic was only local, the virus spread successively to other countries, until it quickly spread to all inhabited continents and was declared a pandemic. Being a new disease and a new virus, the world panicked. The World Health Organization released guidelines to member countries, which they have implemented. Because the disease sped out of control, it became not only a health crisis but also a socio-economic one. A year later, we are still facing this disease, about which we have learned a lot but not yet all that is necessary and so the time has come for a certain summing up. The Covid-19 pandemic is a reality of current times, the year 2020 being portrayed as the “COVID year”. The international scientific community has shown that, when needed, it can collaborate beyond classical barriers. Statistics show that the virus is not very aggressive, the disease is not very serious but there are also serious, sometimes fatal complications to which appropriate measures must be applied. The risk of serious illness and life-threatening complications is statistically reduced over time, the disease being less severe now than at the beginning, so it is on a downward slope.