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It is technically correct to call it a pandemic since it has spread worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic No
by Spellman 7y ago
It is technically correct to call it a pandemic since it has spread worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic
Now, the amount of worry based on the connotations associate with the word "pandemic" might be called overblown due to relative amount of risk of death, hospitalizations, and/or overwhelmed heath services. But the term is being used accurately and appropriately.
- Proziam 7y agoTrue, but the term pandemic comes with added emotional baggage. Most people associate the term with the black plague rather than the flu (which has also been a pandemic several times).
- Spellman 7y agoCorrect. And generally the seasonal flu is exempted. The best comparisons would be to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic of H1N1 pandemic in 2009. Especially H1N1 seems a particularly apt comparison point, even though it had a dramatically lower mortality rate.