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An epidemic may turn into a pandemic if it starts spreading even faster and in more places. An epidemic can still affect lots of people and cause many deaths. The difference is that it's affecting people only in a certain area, not globally. A pandemic is an epidemic that's happening ar...
ow what this means? Pandemic Triage: Does the public know what this means?Pandemic Triage: Does the public know what this means?Andrew R.J. TillyardDr. AnneMarie Slowther
some of which are significantly more risk-tolerant than banks.The COVID-19 pandemic can potentially lead to an increase in capacity for trade financing, as policymakers and business leaders recognise the critical role that robust trade will play in the global recovery. It is one of very few tr...
How this will exactly affect medical school admissions remains to be seen, but the presumption is that medical schools may have to be more flexible with online courses, especially during the pandemic. In addition, given the disruption in learning, students’ grades may be affe...
That ASEAN leaders would travel to faraway Washington during the pandemic has also been deemed as evidence of ASEAN’s increasing expectations of the U.S. The proposal in the summit’s joint vision statement to establish an ASEAN-U.S. comprehensive strategic partnership has been read as an Amer...
At a minimum, every pandemic plan should have at least two parts: it should explain how the organization will deal withsustained periods of employee absenteeismand specify measures for "non-pharmaceutical intervention," which means, essentially, how the business plans to minimize the risk of contagi...
A silver lining is that students may be able to get more financial aid due to their shifting economic circumstances as the financial fallout from COVID-19 continues more than a year into the pandemic. "Students and their families are absolutely still seeing the economic ...
The word “pandemic comes from the Greek ‘pandemos,’ which means everybody. Demos means the population. Pan meaning everyone. So ‘pandemos’ is a concept where there’s a belief that the whole world’s population will likely be exposed to this infection and potentially a proportion of th...
Poverty is the result of a confluence of factors, and not determined solely by income. Understanding Poverty Poverty refers to the lack of adequate financial resources such that individuals, households, and entire communities don't have the means to subsist or to acquire the basic necessities for...