translated from Spanish: Nicole Neumann’s mistake in talking about coronavirus: “In the world it’s pandemic, not yet here”

In Us to the Morning, issued by The Thirteen, they were talking about the coronavirus and its advance around the world. This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the emergency situation a pandemic. Sandra Borghi was talking about the precautionary measures we must take to prevent the spread of the virus. Nicole interrupted and gave her opinion about the appeals: “For me you have to neutralize the issue before you reach the pandemic. We’ve already seen that in the world it’s already a pandemic. When do we have to stop? When has it dissipated or a step earlier? The virus is going to come.” 
“This is pandemic,” Borghi clarified, to which Neumann replied, “Yes, in the world it is a pandemic, not yet here.” Then, to avoid misunderstood, the driver explained, “The pandemic is a widespread epidemic in the world.” Before 2009, the definition of a pandemic required the death rate to be high, since May of that year it has been defined simply as a “global spread of a new disease”. The pandemic, therefore, does not talk about the severity but of the geographical dispersion of a new disease. The last world-famous pandemics were bird flu, in 2005, swine flu (2009-2010) and Ebola.

Original source in Spanish