Take care of your mental health during pandemic
Northeast Colorado Health Department
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges as well as questions. The terms pandemic and epidemic are being used but what do these words mean?
An epidemic is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease within a community, population or region at a particular time, while a pandemic is a global outbreak.
Pandemics happen when a new virus emerges to infect people and spreads between people because there is little or no pre-existing immunity against the new virus. A pandemic is an epidemic that travels.
For example, when COVID-19 was limited to Wuhan, China, it was an epidemic, and then when it geographically spread, it turned into a pandemic.
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