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2019 (MMXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.[1]
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Up to that point, 2019 had been described as the "best year in human history" by some newspapers and media outlets in the United States, including The New York Times and WNYC.[2][3]
- ^ Allam, Zaheer (2020). "The First 50 days of COVID-19: A Detailed Chronological Timeline and Extensive Review of Literature Documenting the Pandemic". Surveying the Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Implications: 1–7. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-824313-8.00001-2. ISBN 9780128243138. PMC 7378494.
- ^ Nicholas Kristof (December 28, 2019). "This Has Been the Best Year Ever". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 4, 2021. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ The Brian Lehrer Show (December 31, 2019). "2019: Best Year Ever?". WNYC. Archived from the original on December 16, 2022. Retrieved August 25, 2022.