9 Interesting Facts About COVID-19

9 Interesting Facts About COVID-19

  1. American billionaires have made an average of $42 billion a week throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source)
  2. COVID-19 started from China and the country with a population of more than 1.3 billion has done an amazing job of controlling the disease. (Source)
  3. Children can become very sick with COVID-19. (Source)
  4. Turkmenistan reported no confirmed cases. CDC issued a Level-4 warning for Turkmenistan. (Source, Source)
  5. Spanish Flu (1918-1920) infected 500 million people and caused 50 million deaths worldwide which is a big number as compared to COVID-19. (Source)
  6. Antarctica is the only continent free of COVID-19. (Source)
  7. Videoconferencing app Zoom has seen its revenues skyrocket due to the coronavirus crisis. (Source)
  8. People are finding it hard to read during the pandemic, even when they have more time on their hands. (Source)
  9. The nation’s largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America, estimates that farmers were dumping as many as 3.7 million gallons of milk each day during the pandemic. (Source)