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How to use the word pandemics in a Sentence?

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Our public safety folks have been through, like many others, a rough last two or three years, we've been through pandemics, we've been through the murder of George Floyd, there's a lot of work for us to do, but part of that is to uplift the folks that are doing that work.

Bob Jacobson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Now, I realize it sounds like I just said that a once-in-a-generation event happened twice in short succession, and pandemics are indeed rare, but once all the conditions are in place -- that is a zoonotic virus capable of both human infection and human transmission that is in close proximity to humans -- the barriers to spillover have been lowered such that multiple introductions, we believe, should actually be expected, i was quite convinced of the lab leak Kristian Andersen, until we dove into this very carefully and looked at it much closer.

Joel Wertheim

Found on CNN
1 year 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 know there are going to be cases, with the flu, we've had experience with flu pandemics before. So we know typically the way they behave. This has been an evolving situation with a totally novel pathogen.

Arnold Monto

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm still hopeful that, if not the Chinese government, the Chinese scientists, friends of Chinese scientists and others with whom they have worked will all come forward and get organized in these various ways, shapes and forms, pandemics are rare, and this is a really devastating one. ... It's frustrating and we want answers.

David Relman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I am grateful to have resolved my employment claims so I can focus all of my attention on my lifelong career goal : containing global outbreaks and preventing pandemics to ensure the world never again suffers the consequences we have seen over the past 18 months.

Rick Bright

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The sad truth is that pandemics even deadlier than Covid could happen at any point in the future. Failure is an option, but success is possible. We must work together as a world and invest the financial and political capital, supported by technical expertise and effective global, regional, and national institutions, to make sure we are never again caught so unprepared.

Tom Frieden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Since we are living in an interconnected and interlinked world, pandemics like this spares no one and no one is safe.

KP Sharma Oli

Found on CNN
2 years ago

America's withdrawal from the international arena has impeded progress on the global response and left us more vulnerable to future pandemics, he will take action to cease the previous administration's process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization, and the Biden/Harris administration will participate in the WHO executive board meeting this week.

Jeff Zients

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Pandemics tell a lot about your happiness. The question is that if pandemic was to hit us again, where would you like to be? The rest is easy, you just start walking. Otherwise you are happy

Letsitsa Mofokeng

added by Mvl
3 years ago

I think we can't deny that fact, if you look at the magnitude of the 1918 pandemic where anywhere from 50 to 75 to 100 million people globally died, that was the mother of all pandemics and truly historic. I hope we don't even approach that with this, but it does have the makings of, the possibility of... approaching that in seriousness.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are not experts on epidemiology, the spread of pandemics or anything like that, we talk to experts, and the main answer they give you is things are highly uncertain.

Jerome Powell

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

What we know from research on previous pandemics is that psychological distress is increased when leaders provide inconsistent, unclear and non-scientifically based information to the people that they lead, these inconsistent messages drive up stress and distress.

Vaile Wright

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is the tale of two pandemics, with very unequal sacrifice.

Chuck Collins

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What pandemics, natural disasters, economic disasters do is uncover the everyday lived experience of these structural inequities that communities live with all the time, then they get so horrid that they come to light and people are just clutching their pearls like,' Oh my goodness !'.

Said Peek

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Far too often, commercial activities that require large-scale land use change levy tremendous costs that are not considered in cost-benefit analysis because the costs are not shouldered by those profiting, three months ago, pandemics did not feel like an urgent issue, people did not feel vulnerable. Now the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting people -- it's affecting the stock market, their quality of life, their health and their loved ones.

Thomas Gillespie

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I always knew that pandemics are one of the worst things that could happen, i've heard about this for a long time, pandemics. You don't want pandemics. I don't think he was talking about a specific pandemic, he was talking about the threat of a pandemic could happen. And it could happen. Most people thought it wouldn't, and most people didn't understand the severity of it.

President Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

China delayed the announcement of SARS and that delayed the efforts to contain the spread of the infection, delays in delivering truths about pandemics result in more cases of infections and more deaths.

Steven Taylor

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This estimation is just that, an estimation, however it is based upon the best epidemiological modeling and opinion of experts in pandemics and respiratory viral disease. This estimation assumes no attempt to lessen the outbreak, so there is the potential for these numbers to be altered somewhat by following public health recommendations like social distancing, avoiding large gatherings and practicing good hand hygiene.

James Lawler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm concerned. This is different than most of the types of pandemics we've had in the past or the other types of disasters that I've been involved with because it has to do with people social distancing themselves, blood has a short shelf life, so it's not like we can stockpile it.

Brian Gannon

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As we see from history, there are regular pandemics in our world and we are due for one, many point to the flu as most likely culprit. It's especially hard on the young and elderly and those with chronic illness.

Tina Cheng

Found on CNN
7 years ago

What we need to see now is action, the WHO's leadership and its member states must make 2016 the year in which we learn the lessons of past epidemics and pandemics and implement these valuable measures, to build a more resilient global health system.

Jeremy Farrar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage, yet for many decades, the world has invested far less in preventing, preparing for and responding to these threats than in comparable risks to international and financial security.

Jeremy Farrar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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