학술논문
Did the hesitancy in declaring COVID-19 a pandemic reflect a need to redefine the term?
Document Type
Letter
Author
Source
Subject
*COMMUNICATION
*EPIDEMICS
*PUBLIC opinion
*TERMS & phrases
*TIME
*COVID-19
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Language
ISSN
0140-6736
Abstract
WHO's declaration that the global spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic[1] has contributed greatly to clearing up confusion in the terminology in the professional literature and the media. Discussions on when wide geographical spread of a disease becomes a pandemic tend to recur when the world is confronted with an emerging infectious disease.[[2]] The debate around the terminology used for COVID-19 raises two important questions. [Extracted from the article]