Today the World Health Organization (WHO) officially called the SARS-CoV2 outbreak a pandemic.
: “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people.” Kelly’s article also stated that “a true influenza pandemic occurs when almost simultaneous transmission takes place worldwide.”
When transmission is occurring simultaneously throughout the world, the cat is out of the bag, so to speak. The horse is out of the barn. The skunk has left the building. Justin Timberlake has left N*SYNC. In other words, the situation has progressed beyond the point of completely reversing it. It’s like finding that mice have already established encampments all over your house and are already knocking little mouse boots in different mouse beds in different places.
Of note, by the WHO definition, a disease has to be “new” to earn the pandemic label. Therefore, something that’s been around for a while does not typically earn the pandemic label even though it is spreading worldwide. A good example is the seasonal flu virus. Each year such viruses spread worldwide, affecting and simultaneously transmitting in many different countries. But no one says, “here we go again with the seasonal flu pandemic,” because the seasonal flu virus just ain’t that new.
New flu viruses and this new coronavirus haven’t been the only causes of pandemics. There was the Sixth Cholera Pandemic of 1910-1911 that killed over 800,000 people. And you know when something is called the sixth, it’s not the first time that something like that has happened. Then there was the Black Death pandemic that spanned from 1346 to 1353. In this case, Bubonic Plague claimed the lives of 75 to 200 million people.
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