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This chapter analyzes the emergence, first outbreaks outside China, and the epidemiology data and models that has guided public health policies. The period covered in this chapter had included the first notification of cases by China until the declaration of a pandemic by the 10.13039/100004423World Health Organization (WHO) on February 11, 2020. This chapter also describes some of the similarities between this virus and previous coronaviruses like severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (2002) and middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (2012). |
