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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is considered among the most recent viral diseases that began in 2003. Although initially, the global community was slow to contain it, eventually the impact of SARS became limited as containment and quarantine became effectively used. This pandemic is perhaps the least deadly, with less than 1000 deaths recorded.<ref>For more on recent pandemics, see: Honigsbaum, M., 2019. <i>The pandemic century: one hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris</i>, First edition. ed. W. W. Norton & Company, New York. </ref>
In 2019, a new pandemic began with the COVID-19. While this pandemic has been one of the most destructive pandemics in recent history, it will take time for historians to completely understand what happened and why. Worldwide over 2.7 million people have died from the pandemic. The United States, one of the hardest hit countries, has had 548,000 by March 26, 2021. Undoubtably, the death toll will continue to rise over the next few months. Ultimately, historians will be began trying to understand the true toll this pandemic has had on the world.
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