In an episode of another illness, words have incredible force. So far in the spread of Covid-19, the World Health Organization has studiously maintained a strategic distance from single word specifically: pandemic. At a press instructions on March 3, senior WHO official Michael Ryan advised against “the dangers of using the pandemic word.” The huge stress is that it may incite governments to unnecessarily or rashly change their techniques in manners that could undermine their endeavors at regulation. So what might it truly mean to call Covid-19 a pandemic? We…
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