OUTBREAK: A sudden rise in cases of a disease in a particular place. EPIDEMIC: A large outbreak, one that spreads among a population or region. The current outbreak of a flu-like illness caused by a ...

Its not every day that a respiratory illness becomes the primary point of conversation in the U.S., but the new coronavirus, which causes the illness known as COVID-19, has us in a near-pandemic.

The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This is a landmark event. As an epidemiologist listening to the steady stream of conversation around the coronavirus, I’m hearing ...

A new Global Health Security Index, the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across 195 countries, suggests that not a single country in the ...

Jan 23, 2020. The newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 is spreading across the globe. “I was high up in the Swiss Alps in Davos, attending, as I usually did this time of year, the World Economic Forum”, writes ...

Closing businesses and schools. Isolating and quarantining individuals. Banning public gatherings. Requiring masks. These were all highly effective public health measures enacted in a time of a global ...