The COVID-19 could become a pandemic — an unsettling and often misunderstood term. ... An outbreak that spreads over a larger geographical area is considered an epidemic.

An epidemic is when an infectious disease spreads rapidly to a large population. Whereas, a pandemic, is where an infectious disease spreads around the globe.

Once used for tracking COVID-19 cases, the tracker has become a resource for virus trends in general, including measles.

Definitions of 'pandemic' and 'epidemic' differ, but it’s not always clear which one best describes a disease outbreak like the new coronavirus.

The terms epidemic and pandemic imply different approaches to a health crisis, said Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

An epidemic or pandemic does not mean, though, that you should make a run on bottled water and buy all the toilet paper you can find. That is, if there’s any still left on shelves.

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An epidemic is a disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population, or region. A pandemic is an epidemic that has spread to multiple countries or continents across the ...

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