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rconti on March 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

Yup; a month ago, they were saying it wouldn't be called a pandemic until it had (secondary) community transmission in a second country.

My reaction to this push alert today was "wait, they hadn't called it a pandemic yet??"

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