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  • 2020-09-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Did The CDC Remove The Words ‘COVID-19 Pandemic’ From Its Website? (en)
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  • An image shared on Facebook claims the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed the words COVID-19 Pandemic from its website and replaced them with COVID-19 Outbreak. Verdict: False The CDC still has the words COVID-19 pandemic on its website. The coronavirus is a pandemic, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Fact Check: Social media platforms are replete with misinformation about the coronavirus. This particular post attempts to suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t actually a pandemic by claiming the CDC removed the words COVID-19 Pandemic and replaced them with COVID-19 Outbreak on its website. A review of the CDC website shows that the words COVID-19 pandemic still appear on various pages. For example, one page is titled Travel During The COVID-19 Pandemic . Other pages on the website, titled Forecasting: Background and Global COVID-19 , also refer to the coronavirus as the COVID-19 pandemic. The post’s claim appears to stem from confusion about the CDC using both of the phrases on its website’s homepage . The CDC has in some instances described COVID-19 as an outbreak on its homepage since at least February, an archived version of the page shows. (RELATED: Did The CDC Revise Its COVID-19 Death Count To Show That Only 9,210 People ‘Actually Died’ From COVID-19?) While the CDC does use the words COVID-19 outbreak on its website, that doesn’t mean the coronavirus isn’t a pandemic. An outbreak is defined as a higher-than-expected number of occurrences of disease in a specific location and time, according to the CDC website . The CDC explains how COVID-19 became a pandemic from the initial outbreak. An outbreak is called an epidemic when there is a sudden increase in cases, reads the CDC website. As COVID-19 began spreading in Wuhan, China, it became an epidemic. Because the disease then spread across several countries and affected a large number of people, it was classified as a pandemic. The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic in early March and still categorizes it as such at the time of publication. (en)
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