Talk:Pandemic

WHO quote

WHO in 2010:

"For both seasonal and pandemic influenza, the total number of people who get severely ill can vary. However, the impact or severity tends to be higher in pandemics in part because of the much larger number of people in the population who lack pre-existing immunity to the new virus. When a large portion of the population is infected, even if the proportion of those infected that go on to develop severe disease is small, the total number of severe cases can be quite large."

-- Sunvalley (talk) 04:04, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

That's logical BS, innit? Urban (talk) 08:40, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

All it's saying is, since pandemics have a lot of infections, even if the proportion which are severe ones is small, the overall number is quite large. -- Robin (talk) 17:57, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Seems my immune system skips fearporn. --Urban (talk) 19:41, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211121094132/https://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/frequently_asked_questions/pandemic/en/