The World Health Organization is the body that decides when an infectious disease formally becomes a pandemic, but that choice is not always black and white. The group’s Director-General says the WHO assesses whether to use the word ‘pandemic’ by evaluating three things. First is the geogra...
The World Health Organization is the body that decides when an infectious disease formally becomes a pandemic, but that choice is not always black and white. The group’s Director-General says the WHO assesses whether to use the word ‘pandemic’ by evaluating three things. First is the geogra...
At first, doctors might not even know the identity of the new virus, how it spreads, or the best way to slow it down. Any type of virus may cause a pandemic, but some are more likely to do so than others. While the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a coronavirus, many other pande...
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Pandemic: Event in which a disease spreads across several countries and affects a large number of people. What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? An outbreak is called an epidemic when there is a sudden increase in cases. As COVID-19 began spreading in Wuhan, China, it...
The terms endemic, outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic indicate how common a condition is at a point in time relative to how common it was at an earlier time. The terms endemic, outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic are often used to describe infections, although conditions such as hypertension, ...
It's clear that the coronavirus pandemic is having an impact on mental health in the U.S. Here is what a few experts want people to know about navigating this difficult time. What’s situational depression? Some people might be experiencing what’s known colloquially as situational depression...
WHO has declared Coronavirus a pandemic. Here is what the classification means. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus that’s now sickened more 100,000 people across the world has officially been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) — weeks after WHO chief Tedros Adhanom ...
(2022·江西·模拟预测)Whether it's the slow drifting apart from a childhood friend, the sudden, sharp distance created by a disagreement, or one of the many relationships that have quietly fallen away during the pandemic, losing someone that you thought would always be in your life is deeply...
At the time this paper was finished, on 1 February 2021, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is already considered a pandemic, being present in 215 countries and territories across the globe, resulting in astronomical levels of infected (102 million) and dead (2.2 million) people (WHO, 2021...