THE HARVARD GAZETTE: When does an epidemic become a pandemic? We’ve had several sizable outbreaks in countries outside of China.
LIPSITCH: The terminology is almost unhelpful, I think. A pandemic is sustained transmission of an infection in multiple locations around the globe, and with Iran, Italy, China, Japan, and South Korea, we have that. It’s unnecessary to keep debating the name. I wrote a piece in Scientific American last week about three categories of ideas, ranging from hard facts to fact-based inference to speculation and opinion. When I said I thought there was a pandemic going a few weeks ago, that was fact-based inference. Now, I think, it’s a fact.
You can read the rest @
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/key-coronavirus-question-how-are-children-affected/
By the way, is Wall Street behind the reluctance of the WHO and CDC to call COVID-19 a "pandemic"? Granted, it's a bit far-fetched, but certainly within the realm of possibility:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/wall-street-behind-delay-declaring-coronavirus-outbreak-pandemic-bonds/265264/
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