What does it mean if coronavirus is declared a pandemic?
by Melissa Davey from Science | The Guardian on (#4ZTV1)
What is a pandemic, why would the WHO declare the Covid-19 outbreak to be one and what comes next?
Pandemics have nothing to do with the severity of a disease but are to do with 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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