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How to use the word epidemics in a Sentence?

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My estimate is about 100,000. It’s going to be havoc, you can’t just think about the direct impact of the shaking, you must also think about what will follow the shaking. There will be looting, fires, epidemics. It’s going to be terrible.

Celal Sengor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This assessment was done behind the scenes, basically without ever contacting me as the sheriff or even asking me what I believe the risk to our public safety would be, i could not believe that we had 150,000 fentanyl pills — one of the most dangerous epidemics that is facing our nation today — with people in custody, that we may potentially be able to impact the future of this type of drug trafficking organization and or cartels in California — in my county — and we let them go.

Sheriff Mike Boudreaux

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need to continue funding the research to create a better influenza vaccine, going forward, flu is going to continue to appear around the world and make annual epidemics that cause incredible amounts of illness, social and economic disruption, so we clearly need a better influenza vaccine.

William Schaffner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you look at epidemics and pandemics in the past, the countries and communities that performed best are ones that were most flexible and were able to respond to existing demand.

Mara Aspinall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have other epidemics going on in terms of obesity, cardiovascular disease.

Louis Mansky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It gets back to the health status of the average American, we have other epidemics going on in terms of obesity, cardiovascular disease.

Louis Mansky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know from past epidemics what that means, the best way to do this is to vaccinate your way out of it in collaboration with masks, we can't be either, or -- the only way we are going to defeat this virus is with both.

Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Probably there was a change in ideology and a different relationship with the afterlife, and with the sphere of the divine, we can not exclude, however, that cremation became widespread also as a practical response to epidemics, considering the increasing demographic size of the communities and the high degree of mobility and interconnectedness among different regions.

Claudio Cavazzuti

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Given that the General Assembly has previously declared international days devoted to chess, yoga and toilets it only seems fair that epidemics should have their day too.

International Crisis Group

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We're about to see all of these little epidemics across the country, crossed and mixed, and it's going to be an awful lot like pouring gasoline on a fire.

Megan Ranney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're just heading into the very worst of this pandemic, we're about to see all of these little epidemics across the country, crossed and mixed, and it's going to be an awful lot like pouring gasoline on a fire.

Megan Ranney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Places like Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Phoenix, Sacramento, Pasadena, Fresno, Juneau, and others made their use mandatory at one point or another during their epidemics.

Alexander Navarro

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As we are seeing with the coronavirus today, disease can profoundly impact a community—upending routines and rattling nerves as it spreads from person to person. But the effects of epidemics extend beyond the moments in which they occur.

Katherine Foss

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4 years ago

The study makes the assumption that it is reasonable to gather together studies from the other two major coronavirus epidemics of the last 20 years — SARS and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome — and to combine these with the relatively limited data so far available about the effects of Covid-19 upon mental health, it is probably legitimate to do so, but a casual glance at the paper may suggest that the paper is mainly about Covid-19, whereas most of the data come from the earlier virus outbreaks.

Tom Dening

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We made a big push trying to take into account how people move around, like direct measurement through cell phone data, there's more social distancing across the country than I think we expected. A number of states in the South will have smaller epidemics than expected.

Christopher Murray

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are facing two crises now, let us not forget the coronavirus epidemics ... Individual discipline and responsibility is of utmost importance.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If you completely locked down absolutely everything probably for a period of four months or more then you would suppress this virus, all of the evidence from pervious epidemics suggests that when you do that and then you release it, it all comes back again.

Patrick Vallance

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That means the reproduction number outside China is currently less than 0.1. Diseases do not spark epidemics unless reproduction numbers are over 1.

David Fisman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The more we learn about these two treatments, ...the closer we can get to turning Ebola from a terrifying disease to one that is preventable and treatable, we won't ever get rid of Ebola but we should be able to stop these outbreaks from turning into major national and regional epidemics.

Jeremy Farrar

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Our suspicion is that it is likely the former, because of the obesity, hypertension and diabetes epidemics.

Sadiya Khan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

New threats mean there is no middle ground, we need to ... protect and build on the gains we have made, or we will see those achievements eroded, infections and deaths resurge, and the prospect of ending the epidemics disappear.

Peter Sands

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

These are interesting organisms and range in scale from massive global epidemics -- cholera -- to infrequent but lethal infections -- Vibrio vulnificus.

Rita Colwell

Found on CNN
6 years ago

There are always two epidemics : one of the virus and one of fear.

Peter Salama

Found on CNN
6 years ago

There are two defining epidemics of our time : the AIDS epidemic and The Ebola.

Peter Piot

Found on CNN
6 years ago

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