Is it a pandemic a pandemic?

Is it a pandemic a pandemic? -

Effect Measure, a lively and popular blog written by anonymous public health scientists / practitioners, has an entertaining riff on the confusion over whether to call the swine flu outbreak ' a pandemic. "The argument boils down to this," write the authors of the measure of the effect, which say the Reveres (after Paul Revere, a member of the first American Board of Health). "We should not call a pandemic a pandemic, because people might misunderstand that mean it is a pandemic. "

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