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...
pandemicThis article highlights key points with respect to each of the following: 1) School systems around the world were stagnant before Covid-19 and had been for some time; 2) Therefore there was considerable pent-up energy to make some changes. Covid-19 has both exposed and exacerbated ...
This study investigated individual differences in the pandemic's expected repercussions, with particular attention to a Balanced Time Perspective (BTP). BTP reflects an individual profile with optimal temporal orientations, it is positively associated with mental health, and it has proven to promote ...
Pandemic vs. epidemic An epidemic is when a virus spreads more than expected in a certain place. For example, the flu (influenza virus) spreads each winter in the U.S., but some years, it infects more people and causes more sickness and deaths than usual. ...
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, ...
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When will the COVID-19 pandemic end? July 28, 2022 - Europe and the United States have entered the endemic stage of the COVID-19 outbreak: the virus is widespread, is significantly... Our Social Impact Blog Post For World Immunization Week, reflections on the fight against infectious dise...
What we know about the 'next pandemic' The next pandemic could be caused by something we haven’t even discovered yet – but this hypothetical disease has already sparked a firestorm on social media. World Health Organisation (WHO) boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned civilisation is unpre...
The world was waiting for any sign of hope in countering the COVID-19 pandemic when researchers released the first encouraging drips of data from a large clinical trial of the antiviral remdesivir last month. The drug, they said, reduced the time to recovery from COVID-19 by a few days ...