The Role of Technology in COVID-19 Pandemic Management and Its Financial Impact

Table 1

The worst twelve epidemics in the history of humanity.

Fecund	Epidemic name reference	Years of occurrence	Approximated deaths
01	Plague of Justinian	541 to 542	100,000,000
02	Black Plague	1346 to 1350	50,000,000
03	HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus)	1960 to present	39,000,000+
04	1918 Flu (Spanish Flu)	1918 to 1920	20,000,000
05	Modern Plague	1894 to 1903	10,000,000
06	Asian Flu	1957 to 1958	2,000,000
07	Sixth Cholera Pandemic	1899 to 1923	1,500,000
08	Russian Flu	1889 to 1890	1,000,000
09	Hong Kong Flu	1968 to 1969	1,000,000
10	Fifth Cholera Pandemic	1881 to 1896	981,899
11	Ebola	1976 to 2015	13, 562+
12	2020: COVID-19	2019 to present	3,375,573+ (as May 18, 2021)