Just curious: What region are you in where it's not a pandemic?
Hopkins raw data, my favorite! My regions:
Currently in Maryland (31 active, none in my county):
Tomorrow, back to Nevada (21 active, none in my county):
Next week (travel bans permitting), St. Thomas (1 active):
Consensus is unlikely, I get that.
From Doctor
Merriam Webster:
Origins of Epidemic and Pandemic
Epidemic, which may be traced to the Greek
epidḗmios (“within the country, among the people, prevalent (of a disease)”), may carry broader meanings, such as “excessively prevalent,” “contagious,” or “characterized by very widespread growth or extent” (often used in a non-medical sense).
Pandemic is less often encountered in a broad and non-medical sense, but does have additional senses, including “affecting the majority of people in a country or a number of countries”, “found in most parts of the world and in varied ecological conditions,” and “of or relating to common or sensual love” (in this last sense the word is usually capitalized).
Pandemic comes from the Greek
pandēmos (“of all the people”), which itself is from
pan- (“all, every”) and
dēmos (“people”).
On the Novel Coronavirus
Some organizations and scientists had recommended calling the coronavirus a
pandemic in the weeks prior to the World Health Organization deciding to do so. It is worth noting, however, that there is no clear line distinguishing an
epidemic from a
pandemic. The latter is, from a public health perspective, worse than the former, but there is sufficient overlap between the two that at certain points consensus is unlikely. The
coronavirus has, unfortunately, spread now to such a global extent, and with such severity, that we appear to have moved past the point of semantic ambiguity; the disease has taken on
pandemic proportions.
