- Coronavirus COVID-19 is a global pandemic, the World Health Organization declared today.
- The group initially refused to use the label of “pandemic,” but said the severity of the outbreak now meets the loosely-defined criteria.
- The United States has taken few measures to curb the spread of the disease.
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The World Health Organization just declared the coronavirus outbreak COVID-19 has reached the level of a global pandemic. After repeatedly announcing that it would hold off on making that declaration until it was absolutely certain of the severity of the outbreak and its spread, the group made the call today and announced it at a press conference from Geneva, Switzerland.
The declaration comes as confirmed cases of coronavirus infection continue to grow, passing 115,000. Over 1,000 of those cases are in the United States, but these figures are likely much lower than the true number of infected individuals, meaning the outbreak is far more widespread than it appears on a map.
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