Last night the World Health Organisation officially classified the COVID-19 virus (or Coronavirus) as a Pandemic. In this video, we discuss why they made this decision, what a pandemic is and why it matters.

In 1918 and 1919, the world took on a new, invisible enemy: the so-called "Spanish flu" pandemic sweeping the globe. The pandemic left tens of millions of casualties in its wake as it devastated one community after another. Given the...

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Pandemics are disease epidemics that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents, or worldwide. A widespread endemic. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as smallpox and...

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