Sentence examples for pandemic scale from inspiring English sources

Closures began on a pandemic scale around the time of the 2008 financial crash, when spending in pubs dropped with the recession.

If the outbreak is much smaller than initially thought, Dr. Schaffner said, "It would, I think, enable the world's public health community to take a deep breath and continue to track the outbreak and reduce the tendency, as the W.H.O. has been doing, to notch up on its pandemic scale".

Furthermore, few of these pharmaceutical measures can be applied at pandemic scale.

Obesity has become an important public health problem worldwide, affecting different population groups on a pandemic scale [ 1, 2].

The Director-General announced on April 29 that the world was at phase 5 on the WHO pandemic scale (32 ).

In an era of epidemiological and nutritional transition obesity has become an important public health problem, affecting different populations and population groups almost at a pandemic scale [ 1- 4].

The current year 2009 has been marked by a late season pandemic-scale emergence of a novel A/H1N1 outbreak strain, raising immediate concerns for public health as well as for pork and poultry production industries worldwide.

Today, the World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan announced that she had raised the pandemic alert scale to 6, the highest level, to indicate that a pandemic caused by the A (H1N1) swine flu virus is now underway.

Although the A (H1N1) virus has now spread to 76 countries and seems to be spreading briskly in Australia, the agency still has not moved its pandemic alert scale to 6, the highest level.

A pandemic on the scale of Spanish flu is unlikely today.

The rise of fake news and "vaccine fatigue" could seriously harm the response to a global flu pandemic on the scale of the 2009 swine flu outbreak, experts have warned.