{"title":"Pandemics: A COVID-19 perspective","authors":"L. Bowen","doi":"10.26550/2209-1092.1092","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"[ ]though, how do we define the terms pandemic, epidemic, outbreak and cluster? [ ]the microorganism has to be pathogenic, that is, be able to infect and cause disease in humans [ ]it needs to be able to easily spread between humans6, like COVID-19, which is spread by large droplets, fomite and aerosol transmission from airways and through contaminate surfaces as contact transmission8","PeriodicalId":37332,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perioperative Nursing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Perioperative Nursing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.26550/2209-1092.1092","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Nursing","Score":null,"Total":0}
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[ ]though, how do we define the terms pandemic, epidemic, outbreak and cluster? [ ]the microorganism has to be pathogenic, that is, be able to infect and cause disease in humans [ ]it needs to be able to easily spread between humans6, like COVID-19, which is spread by large droplets, fomite and aerosol transmission from airways and through contaminate surfaces as contact transmission8