Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Covid-19: Discussion
Dr. Tony Holohan:
It is a technical term. "Pandemic" means essentially that something has reached an epidemic in more than two regions of the WHO, which is divided into five regions at a world level. "Endemic" means something is there and is going to stay and be a continuing feature of transmission.
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