Not trying to downplay this dangerous virus and it’s potential, but typically, an epidemic is defined as widespread and infecting a significant portion of a population at the same time. The CDC is holding this years flu season just below “epidemic level” in the USA, and it has infected Americans in numbers orders of magnitude above the number of Chinese infected by COVID-2019. Even in China, this virus is still at the “outbreak” level. The Chinese are desperately trying to avoid an epidemic, and the world is nowhere near pandemic. Not that it cant happen over the next few months or years, but there is a wide gap between pandemic and where we are now.
“Not that it cant happen over the next few months or years, but there is a wide gap between pandemic and where we are now.”
Debbie Downer. A lot of people insist this becoome a pandemic and now they are going to be mad.