That doesn’t match with the common definitions of the word.
A pandemic is an epidemic which has spread across multiple countries and/or continents. An epidemic is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
Clearly COVID-19 is an infectious disease, and clearly it has become widespread, across multiple countries and continents. It is the poster child for the word “pandemic”.
When have they ever before referred to an epidemic as a “pandemic” when it was not massively deadly to most people. The Wuhan Virus, in spite of the breadth of its infection, is NOT massively deadly to most people. It is for exactly that reason that the “Spanish Flu” and its partner viruses in what is called the “seasonal flu” is NOT called a “pandemic” in spite of its global spread to millions in all the world.