My recollection is that when Covid-19 started in the U.S., it was centered in New York. If it somehow had been stopped at the borders of New York, would it still have been a pandemic? An epidemic? When does it take to make it endemic?
My recollection is that when Covid-19 started in the U.S., it was centered in New York. If it somehow had been stopped at the borders of New York, would it still have been a pandemic? An epidemic? When does it take to make it endemic?
If it somehow had been stopped at the borders of New York, would it still have been a pandemic? An epidemic?
When it was confined to New York it would have been considered an epidemic, but once it spread it became a pandemic.
When does it take to make it endemic?
It already is endemic. Covid19 is here to stay, with mutations yearly like the flu.
From now on we live with it. Children catch it when young and develop immunity.
They're going to try to get everybody to get a yearly vaccine like the flu vaccine as there is a lot of money in it.
But once you're vaccinated once or catch it once, any subsequent reinfection is milder than before as your body will know what to do with it, even any variants. Viruses evolve to be more infectious and less deadly and this is the course of Covid. The delta variant is almost unstoppable from spreading, but it's less deadly than all the previous variants despite what anybody may tell you.
You hear now a lot about the number of cases, but nothing about the number of deaths as they're miniscule and a small number of death is not productive for the narrative, so they shift the focus to the number of cases and try to scare you.
Endemic:
adj.
Prevalent in or limited to a particular locality, region, or people.
adj.
Native to or limited to a certain region.
adj.
Common in or inherent to an enterprise or situation.
A disease is endemic if it has a steady, local distribution. An epidemic is a rapid disease spread within a defined region or population. A pandemic is an epidemic that spreads over large areas of the world ("pan" is Greek for "all").
Examples: Malaria is endemic in Central America. Ebola virus caused an epidemic in 2014/15 in West Africa. HIV caused a pandemic, affecting virtually every country in the world. An epidemic, such as Covid19, started as an epidemic in southern China, but soon spread across the world and became a pandemic.
My recollection is that when Covid-19 started in the U.S., it was centered in New York.
No, they called NY the epicenter because it had the most cases. Not the first.
No, they called NY the epicenter because it had the most cases. Not the first.
Correct. In my previous link to the CDC it stated:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed the first case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the United States in the state of Washington.
To answer the original question: As I understand it (I'm not an expert) ...
If an outbreak is confined to one location and there is suddenly a significant number of cases, that is an epidemic.
If the outbreak spreads to cover many locations in multiple continents (pan means many or all) then it is a pandemic.
Endemic is fancy talk for a commonplace disease or a commonplace plant or animal species. Eg obesity is now endemic in the western world. Eg rats are endemic in many countries.
or a commonplace plant or animal species
Not necessarily commonplace.
For example, I grow some plants that are endemic to New Zealand but they're not very common. One, for example, only grows in a small coastal area of South Island.
AJ
Hmm.
Subtle change of meaning depending on context.
If I said "This plant is endemic in New Zealand," I would mean it was common throughout NZ.
If I said "This plant is endemic to New Zealand," I would mean it was only found in NZ (such as your example)
Subtle change of meaning depending on context.
If I said "This plant is endemic in New Zealand," I would mean it was common throughout NZ.
If I said "This plant is endemic to New Zealand," I would mean it was only found in NZ (such as your example)
Excellent point, which provides a clear context for use in other's stories.
Actually it's always been a ScamDemic..not a pandemic..
A Pandemic doesn't have a 99% survival rate
Actually it's always been a ScamDemic..not a pandemic..
A Pandemic doesn't have a 99% survival rate
The medical definitions of epidemic and pandemic do not in any way shape or form require lethality.
It's entirely possible to have a pandemic with a 100% survival rate.
"What does demic mean?
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Adjective. demic (not comparable) (rare) Of or pertaining to a distinct population of people. (ecology) Of or pertaining to a deme. (dialect) Dysfunctional; broken.
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Simply so, what does demic stand for?
Domestic and Export Market Intelligence Cell
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Also asked, what does the suffix demic mean?
not comparable
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a prefix occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant "upon," "on," "over," "near," "at," "before," "after" (epicedium; epidermis; epigene; epitome); on this model, used in the formation of new compound words (epicardium; epinephrine).
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Some people like to jump up and down screaming racism when this is pointed out, but the facts are the facts.
San Francisco, New York, L.A. and other cities that have large Chinese communities were the first to report it. That can be verified by the CDC.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0121-novel-coronavirus-travel-case.html
On January 17, 2020, CDC began implementing public health entry screening at San Francisco (SFO), New York (JFK), and Los Angeles (LAX) airports. This week CDC will add entry health screening at two more airports β Atlanta (ATL) and Chicago (ORD).
Obviously at that time, the CDC recognized the source.
Some people like to jump up and down screaming racism when this is pointed out, but the facts are the facts.
Tracking the first instance of anything is problematic, as its generally acknowledged that it's only the first recorded event, not the only one.
What's more significant, is that the New York version was traced back to the European variant, while the California one was tracked elsewhere (Asia maybe?). But it's generally recognized that the California variant was the earliest, while the New York one was merely the first major outbreak, the difference being that the Californians had already developed widespread antibodies to it, while the New Yorkers hadn't.
Washington state had the first recorded incident. California followed Washington state. As for versions, you mean variants such as the current delta variant, aka covid19 D.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-info.html
As for versions, you mean variants such as the current delta variant
It's annoying how many have adopted the Chinese-approved nomenclature for variants of the Wuhan Flu. ;-)
AJ
It's annoying how many have adopted the Chinese-approved nomenclature for variants of the Wuhan Flu. ;-)
It's annoying how many keep calling it a flu. It's not an influenza, it's a cold on steroids.
It's annoying how many keep calling it a flu. It's not an influenza, it's a cold on steroids.
Technically, it is a Covid variant, and Covid strains are traditionally very much cold related, however the Covid-19 original behaved (for whatever reason) more like a flu than a cold (i.e. the normal cold-related cures had little effect, while the disease mainly attacked the lungs, rather than the nasal passages like a cold does).
Strain would be a more technically accurate term.
As long as it's not 'The Andromeda Strain' ...
As long as it's not 'The Andromeda Strain' ...
That would be racist, implying the Andromedans are to blame ;-)
AJ
Where do you find Chinese approval of that nomenclature?
He means (I assume) 'Chinese inspired', which is really more of a 'Chinese Flu' rational for the more racist overtures (not his, but in general from a variety of sources, thus the meanings often get convoluted).
I'm not casting stones, but it seems to be where his phrasing originates.
The Chinese want to distance the virus and its variants from their points of origin as part of their strategy to hide their culpability in that respect from the history books. Hence their WHO stooges encouraging everyone to use Alpha instead of Kent, Beta instead of South Africa, Delta instead of India etc. And definitely don't mention Wuhan. They even got a paper written by bunch of stooge scientists published in 'The Lancet', claiming the virus couldn't have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
All very Newspeak :-(
AJ
I don't disagree with any of that. The concept of face is very important to the Chinese government, so it's not unexpected for them to go to great lengths to redirect any fault.
Washington state had the first recorded incident. California followed Washington state. As for versions, you mean variants such as the current delta variant, aka covid19 D.
You're right, as the original California cases were traced to Asia via the Washington State outbreak (as best I can recall).
But the use of 'variant' at the time didn't mean 'variant' of the Covid-19 bug itself, but rather 'transmission variant', meaning where the outbreak was traced back to at the time. And, at the time, that was precisely the terminology they used.
Of course, since I live on the East Coast, and the majority of my friends and family come from here and were directly impacted by the New York transmissions, I'd largely ignored the California strains as 'irrelevant' in terms of my personal exposures. The New York expose still tied back to China, but come through Europe, where the virus hadn't yet 'cooled' through less adverse reactions yet.
For someone who lived in or around Manhattan for most of my life, and who had family there at the time, I was more focused there than on the subsequent Florida east-coast cases.
It's not worth it - how does this help us as authors?
Learning the difference between race and ethnicity to begin with.
I am not even going to argue if it's racist or not to single out an ethnicity and blame them for any hardships.
Argue that with the CDC. Neither race nor ethnicity come into that picture. Unless you're assuming a specific race or ethnicity represents the whole of the country of China. The waters are particularly turbide if we focus on just the ethnicities within China. Han, Zhuang, Hmong, Li, Tibetan, Mongol, Korean etc. So which of those ethnicities did you assume?
The CDC recognized China the 'country' as the source.
to single out an ethnicity and blame them for any hardships
He didn't single them out. He didn't blame them. The fact is, people traveled to the U.S. from a place where Covid-19 was and brought it with them.