When it comes to infectious diseases in the news, you often hear terms like outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and endemic. The differences in these terms comes down to the scope of ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- As California becomes the first U.S. state to adopt an "endemic" approach to COVID-19, we take a closer look at what becoming "endemic" means and if virus levels have truly ...
Terms like outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and public health emergency each describe a different level of spread, and they help determine how fast and how far the response goes.
The recent outbreak of the rare Andes hantavirus has once again drawn attention to terms that became widely familiar during the COVID‑19 pandemic: endemic, epidemic and pandemic. These concepts are ...
The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This is a landmark event. As an epidemiologist listening to the steady stream of conversation around the coronavirus, I’m hearing ...
The World Health Organization designated COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11. So what’s the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic? Yahoo News explains.