Name: Could coronavirus become a pandemic?
Uploaded: 2020-03-15T21:30:39.000Z
Duration: 1 min 15 s
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Transition words & phrases

I think, if we do not recognize the possibility that that could happen is being unrealistic, because this is now.

Adverbs of degree

We're in the middle of a devolving situation with a virus that we've never had any other experience with up until just most recently.

I mean, we have a month in a few days worth of experience with a virus that's rapidly accelerating in China and has already been mostly through travel through 26 plus countries, including the United States.

So whether or not this becoming an ongoing outbreak in multiple countries spread throughout the world, hence making it be defined as a pandemic, we don't have any idea of that.

That's the reason why I've been quoted as saying.

 It is certainly possible that this could turn into, by definition, a real pandemic. 