History of Coronavirus in 90 Seconds | First 500 Million Cases

High-resolution animation of the global spread of reported infections with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, causing COVID-19. The displayed period ends on 25 April 2022, at which date the COVID-19 pandemic had infected over half a billion people and tragically claimed millions of lives.

The brighter a pixel, the higher the number of momentarily infected people per unit surface area. Colour is used to distinguish between different virus variants. More precisely, this animation uses a hue-saturation-lightness (HSL) colour model, where the lightness increases monotonically with the reported local counts of currently infected people per unit surface area. A non-linear, approximately logarithmic mapping allows for a high dynamic range of densities to be displayed simultaneously. Different virus variants of “concern”, as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO), are distinguished by hue: orange for the Alpha variant, yellow for Beta, green for Gamma, blue for Delta, and purple for Omicron. The original “wild-type” variant, as well as less significant mutations are collectively shown in red.

Credits:
Virus animation adopted from a protein model by Alexey Solodovnikov published at “N+1”.
License code: MK4DKIDNDBSWDZR5

[luvforalvaeri]

gonna show this to my kid one day and say that i fought sooo hard to survive that virus, while in reality i did nothing and just scrolled through tiktok all day long

[Lukey-Pookey]

Greenland was perfectly fine the whole time

[somethingtojenga]

0:20 Dawn of SARS-CoV-2
0:30 SARS-CoV-2 hunter gatherers migrate
0:45 Alpha, Beta, and Gamma settlements develop agriculture
0:55 Delta empire develops advanced weapons
1:00 Delta world conquest, other empires fall
1:13 Omicron independence gained
1:16 Omicron-Delta World War, Delta defeated
1:25 World Peace

[SillyLittleMan]

When we have grandchildren later on, we should all tell them highly exaggerated stories about 2020 💀

[Vadagarr]

I like how you illustrated the different variants using colors and how they spread so quickly throughout Earth. Might run out of colors however with how many other new variants we will get in the future. Just saying.

[liongames]

This map is beautiful, but if you look at the context, it’s terrifying.

[thisisadiman]

This is an absolutely brilliant illustration!

[otisandamikasworld]

0:45 like a movie with all the villains turning up

[jasonmendoza]

To think that we've had about 2million deaths to covid in just 2 years is mind blowing and sad at the same time..

[marcellotenarta]

Please make part 2, the cases up to now!

[CoasterCountry.]

RIP to everyone who died during and after the pandemic.

[bananawithahintoflemon]

Greenlands always the hardest place to infect. The people play on the cure mode did pretty good tho. Sure they could of acted sooner but gg to both sides

[Aviation]

0:43 Scary to see that the state I live in is glowing yellow in northern India, Glad we survived but we lost some of our loved ones

[MarcoServetto]

Please, do the continuation in a couple of months!

[facupro]

Covid-19 virus reached my country, I survived but my mom's dad's dad died of covid in 2021, then my mom's dad also got covid but thanks to God he survived

[IAMTOP]

We should appreciate the work they done for us👋👋

[christiancockayne]

Just to think, we lived through the biggest scandal in history.

[SebsTruckStop]

This video will be looked at in a couple of decades and will be used in school history classes. It’s a really good representation

[pavlinavandenbosch]

Im so sorry for all the passed away people😭 RIP

[Ryguy]

Amazing video rlly hope there won’t be a part 2 needed