What is a pandemic?

Name: What is a pandemic?
Uploaded: 2020-03-11T02:29:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 45 s
Description: Dr. Purvi Parikh, an immunologist at NYU Langone, said she expects the WHO to declare COVID-19 a pandemic at some point in the coming weeks and pointed out that not every country has reported a case of the virus yet. She said that a pandemic is when that epidemic then gets amplified globally, so it's spreading through multiple countries and around the globe.

Dr. Purvi Parikh, an immunologist at NYU Langone, said she expects the WHO to declare COVID-19 a pandemic at some point in the coming weeks and pointed out that not every country has reported a case of the virus yet. She said that a pandemic is when that epidemic then gets amplified globally, so it's spreading through multiple countries and around the globe.

Posted March 10, 2020 10:36pm EDT