We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus. This is the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus.
“我们以前从未见过冠状病毒引发的大流行病,这还是第一次。”
And we have never before seen a pandemic that can be controlled, at the same time."
“同时,我们以前也从未见过一场可以得到控制的大流行病。”
As the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) explains on its website, “an epidemic occurs when an infectious disease spreads rapidly to many people.” Usually, what precedes an epidemic is an outbreak, or “a sudden rise in the number of cases of a disease.” An outbreak can affect a single community or several countries, but it’s on a much smaller scale than an epidemic.
感染控制和流行病学专业人员协会在网站上解释道:“当一种传染性疾病迅速传播给许多人时,就被称为epidemic。”通常,epidemic发生之前会有outbreak(疾病暴发),即“某种疾病案例的突然增加”。Outbreak可能影响到单个社区或几个国家,但规模比epidemic小得多。
If an epidemic can’t be contained and keeps expanding its reach, public health officials might start calling it a pandemic, which means it’s affected enough people in different areas of the world to be considered a global outbreak. In short, a pandemic is a worldwide epidemic. It infects more people, causes more deaths, and can also have widespread social and economic repercussions.
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