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WHO says it no longer uses 'pandemic' category, but virus still emergency
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Posted on 02/24/2020 5:53:22 AM PST by janetjanet998

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization no longer uses the term pandemic, but the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak remains an international emergency that is likely to spread further, a spokesman said on Monday.

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To: janetjanet998

All of this mayhem and the WHO is agonizing about what words they can use. That inspires confidence.


21 posted on 02/24/2020 7:22:34 AM PST by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: BobL

Damn! That was close!

I knew us panic-driven extremists were wrong claiming this would be a pandemic. Close call, nearly was one.

...but all is well now! LOL.

Exactly. Now that the UN says we’re all safe... nothing to worry about.

When is the UN ever wrong about anything?


22 posted on 02/24/2020 7:44:37 AM PST by samtheman (Virginia takes guns. NY legalizes crime. Chicago mass murders. SF poops streets. DEMOCRATS)
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To: janetjanet998

The means the globalists have determine is the best way to take down the economy.


23 posted on 02/24/2020 8:00:30 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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WHO chief Tedros: “Does this virus have pandemic potential? Absolutely, it has. Are we there yet? From our assessment, not
yet.

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1231962584389181442


24 posted on 02/24/2020 8:07:06 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998
Norman, there is no such thing as a pandemic

Listen very carefully Norman, Does this virus have pandemic potential? Absolutely, it has. Are we there yet? NO

25 posted on 02/24/2020 8:11:34 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998
Norman, there is no such thing as a pandemic

Listen very carefully Norman, Does this virus have pandemic potential? Absolutely, it has. Are we there yet? NO


26 posted on 02/24/2020 8:12:39 AM PST by janetjanet998
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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty Tedros said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

I guess it's not a literal pandemic until every person in the world has it. On another note, if this one isn't pandemic enough, what's next in the WMD pipeline?

27 posted on 02/24/2020 8:37:55 AM PST by Tellurian (DeMullahkRats would smugly tell even God "you didn't build that".)
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To: janetjanet998

The Hajj Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca is:
.................
Tue, Jul 28, 2020 – Sun, Aug 2, 2020
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Attendance: 7,952,121 (2018)


28 posted on 02/24/2020 12:01:00 PM PST by gandalftb
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29 posted on 02/24/2020 2:39:26 PM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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To: cgbg

Like when 44 tried to change the term’ war on terror’ to ‘overseas contingency operation’ .


30 posted on 02/24/2020 7:54:22 PM PST by HollyB
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Dow futures are down 832 points this morning no matter how it’s labeled. This is taking Trumps line of how’s your 401k’s doing away from him. Libs are ecstatic I’m sure.

Markets will recover before the election...might end up being great timing for a rebound

31 posted on 02/24/2020 7:57:18 PM PST by Archie Bunker on steroids
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Just to clear things up - eye roll

“ description versus a definition

Harvey Fineberg, chairman of a WHO-appointed International Health Regulations (IHR) Review Committee that evaluated WHO’s response to H1N1 influenza, identified the definition of pandemic influenza as a “critical element of our review”.8 In a draft report released in March, the committee faulted WHO for “inadequately dispelling confusion about the definition of a pandemic” and noted WHO’s “reluctance to acknowledge its part in allowing misunderstanding”9 of the web page alteration, which WHO has characterized as a change in the “description” but not in the “definition” of pandemic influenza. “It’s not a definition, but we recognize that it could be taken as such … It was the fault of ours, confusing descriptions and definitions”,10 a WHO communications officer declared. Indeed, the Council of Europe was not alone in claiming that the “definition” had been changed.7,11,12

WHO argues that this phrase – which could be more neutrally referred to as a description–definition – had little bearing on policy responses; a WHO press release states that it was “never part of the formal definition of a pandemic” and was never sent to Member States, but simply appeared in “a document on WHO’s website for some months”.13 In actuality, the description–definition was displayed at the top of the WHO Pandemic Preparedness home page for over six years and is consistent with the descriptions of pandemic influenza put forth in various WHO policy documents over the years.14–16 However, while the original description–definition unambiguously describes disease severity and certainly reflects general assumptions about pandemic influenza before novel H1N1 emerged, it is unrelated to the criteria WHO applied to declare H1N1 influenza a pandemic.”

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/7/11-086173/en/

Guidelines

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/7/BLT-11-086173-table-T1.html

Phases of pandemic levels

http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/influenza/data-and-statistics/pandemic-influenza/about-pandemic-phases

“ The current WHO phase of pandemic alert is 6.”
“ Phase 6, the pandemic phase, is characterized by community level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different WHO region in addition to the criteria defined in Phase 5. Designation of this phase will indicate that a global pandemic is under way.

During the post-peak period, pandemic disease levels in most countries with adequate surveillance will have dropped below peak observed levels. The post-peak period signifies that pandemic activity appears to be decreasing; however, it is uncertain if additional waves will occur and countries will need to be prepared for a second wave.

Previous pandemics have been characterized by waves of activity spread over months. Once the level of disease activity drops, a critical communications task will be to balance this information with the possibility of another wave. Pandemic waves can be separated by months and an immediate “at-ease” signal may be premature.”


32 posted on 02/24/2020 8:08:18 PM PST by HollyB
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