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A medical dictionary definition of pandemic is "an epidemic occurring on a scale that crosses international boundaries, usually affecting people on a worldwide scale". [14] A disease or condition is not a pandemic merely because it is widespread or kills many people; it must also be infectious.
A term for COVID-19 used by former United States president Donald Trump to emphasize that the pandemic started in China. Comirnaty. Main article: Comirnaty. The commercial name for the FDA approved COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer, released August 21, 2021. It also has several other names or designators used on the actual vials. Community transmission
Manchurian plague (part of the third plague pandemic) 1910–1911 China: Pneumonic plague: 60,000 [185] 1916 United States polio epidemic 1916 United States Poliomyelitis: 7,130 [186] 1918 influenza pandemic ('Spanish flu') 1918–1920 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H1N1: 17–100 million [187] [188] [189] 1918–1922 Russia typhus ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... A pandemic is a global epidemic or disease outbreak. Pandemic may also refer to:
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On 9 October, following unsuccessful talks and confrontation between Díaz Ayuso and PM Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish government approved a State of Alarm for the Community of Madrid. [ 27 ] On 20 October 2020, two health officials of the Ayuso administration (the manager of Primary Attention and the manager of Hospitals) handed in their resignation.
The Plague of Athens (c. 1652 –1654) by Michiel Sweerts, illustrating the devastating epidemic that struck Athens in 430 BC, as described by the historian Thucydides. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines epidemic broadly: "Epidemic refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in ...
[11] [12] Pandemics and their ends are not well-defined, and whether or not one has ended differs according to the definition used. [11] [13] As of 13 January 2025, COVID-19 has caused 7,079,912 [5] confirmed deaths, and 18.2 to 33.5 million estimated deaths. [7] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the fifth-deadliest pandemic or epidemic in history.