What is a pandemic and does it change the approach to coronavirus?
by Melissa Davey from Science | The Guardian on (#50KTX)
The WHO has declared the Covid-19 outbreak to be a pandemic. But what does that mean?
Declaring a pandemic has nothing to do with changes to the characteristics of a disease, but is instead associated with concerns over its geographic spread. According to the World Health Organization, a pandemic is declared when a new disease for which people do not have immunity spreads around the world beyond expectations.
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