https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/76ff6eec3a957167680b79349697b7b4.pdf 82d963f1edd6b1fa36980e468cd32232 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource COVID-19: Monitoring the propagation of the first waves of the pandemic Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Knafo William Description An account of the resource Introduction: A phenomenological approach is proposed to monitor the propagation of the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: A large set of data collected during the first months of 2020 is compiled into a series of semi-logarithmic plots, for a selection of 32 countries from the five continents. Results: Three regimes are identified in the propagation of an epidemic wave: a pre-epidemic regime 1, an exponential-growth regime 2, and a resorption regime 3. A two-parameters scaling of the first-wave death variation reported in China is used to fit the first-wave data reported in other countries. Comparison is made between the propagation of the pandemic in different countries, which are classified into four groups, from Group A where the pandemic first waves were contained efficiently, to Group D where the pandemic first waves widely spread. All Asian countries considered here, where fast and efficient measures have been applied, are in Group A. Group D is composed of Western-European countries and the United States of America (USA), where late decisions and confused political communication (pandemic seriousness, protection masks, herd immunity, etc.) led to a large number of deaths. Discussion: The threat of resurging epidemic waves following a lift of lockdown measures is discussed. The results obtained in Asian countries from group A, as Hong Kong and South Korea, are highlighted, and the measures taken there are presented as examples that other countries may follow. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource Italy, Epidemiology, Nigeria, Iran, Switzerland, Greece, Spain, Mexico, China, USA, South Africa, Hong Kong, Immunity, Brazil, Mortality, India, Australia, Norway, Sepsis, Czech Republic, Sweden, Portugal, France, virus, Taiwan, Germany, Europe, protection, Morbidity, Japan, Philippines, Russia, Belgium, Israel, Asia, Western Europe, South Korea, Singapore, United Kingdom, Morocco, epidemic, Pandemic, the Netherlands, scandinavia, epidemic wave, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, lockdown, phenomenological description, resurging epidemic waves Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DOI: 10.1051/fopen/2020005 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 4 open Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available EDP Sciences Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Science, Medicine