Pandemic alerts and disease severity
In a previous post, I asked whether the term “pandemic” should be used to describe any epidemic with global reach, regardless of the severity of disease manifestations. Tomorrow's NY Times has a front page article quoting several public health leaders addressing the same issue. To quote the article:
"Many predicted that [WHO] would find some way to reflect the severity, and not just the geographic reach, of a new threat."
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