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ffp3, Ryan said there is no such thing as “no risk” in the current outbreak, and that containing the spread would rely on “good risk management, good communication between states,” but that it’s “not about shutting borders.” “It’s about coherent coordinate public health action by a number of neighboring states who share borders,” he said.
ffp3 - The highly-contagious coronavirus continues to spread despite health officials' best efforts to contain the outbreak; Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel reacts. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus that’s sickened more than 70,000 people and killed some 2,600 others “absolutely” has the potential to become a pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Monday. When asked if the virus has “pandemic potential,” Tedros, speaking in Geneva, said, “absolutely, yes.” But, he noted, “for the moment we're not witnessing the uncontained global spread of this virus.”
ffp3, AFGHANISTAN SEES FIRST CORONAVIRUS CASE AS NUMBERS SPIKE IN NEIGHBORING IRAN I have spoken consistently about the need for facts, not fear. Using the word pandemic now does not fit the facts but it may certainly cause fear, Tedros added. But what is a pandemic? Epidemiologists — simply put, those who study disease outbreaks in human populations — typically look at disease prevalence, incidence, and either known or unknown disease pathways, among other factors, when describing a disease event, according to Verywell Health. The terms “sporadic,” “cluster,” “endemic,” “hyperendemic,” “epidemic,” “outbreak,” and “pandemic,” are often those used to describe different disease events.
ffp3 - To understand a pandemic, however, it’s important to first know the term epidemic — or what one report defines as an “outbreak that spreads over a large geographical area.” The Zika virus that began in Brazil in 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that began the same year, as well as the ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S., are all considered to be examples of an epidemic, which is also described as a problem “that has grown out of control,” according to Verywell Health.
ffp3 - HOW DANGEROUS IS CORONAVIRUS? A pandemic, on the other hand, “refers to an epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, usually affecting a large number of people,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The 1918 Spanish influenza is perhaps the most infamous example of a pandemic. The 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) — which also began in China — is also considered to be a pandemic. Scientists use the term 'pandemic' to describe a new virus that emerges and spreads to multiple countries throughout the world. It means that the new virus is widespread and is spreading efficiently in those countries, but it does not tell us how severe the virus may be, Dr. William Schaffner, the medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), told Fox News in an email, noting WHO is ultimately responsible for designating a pandemic.