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《LANCET，3月13日，Did the hesitancy in declaring COVID-19 a pandemic reflect a need to redefine the term?》

  • 来源专题：COVID-19科研动态监测
  • 编译者： xuwenwhlib
  • 发布时间：2020-03-14

  • Did the hesitancy in declaring COVID-19 a pandemic reflect a need to redefine the term?

    Manfred S Green

    Published:March 13, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30630-9

    WHO's declaration that the global spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic1 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, 3 The debate around the terminology used for COVID-19 raises two important questions. The first question is why there was reluctance to call the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, and the second question is whether the terminology is of any practical importance.

  • 原文来源：https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30630-9/fulltext
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