Assertion: pandemic | /r/CapableOf | affect people
Facets:
value: usually
type: TEMPORAL
value: on a worldwide scale
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: A pandemic is an epidemic occurring on a scale that crosses international boundaries, usually affecting people on a worldwide scale.
text: In layman terms, it means that the virus is now circulating in the community, and can infect people with no history either of travel to affected areas or of contact with an infected person.
text: Although a new virus typically does not spread between species, if it mutates, it may start to spread easily and result in a pandemic that affects both people and animals.
text: A pandemic spreads wider and affects more people.
text: A pandemic stretches over a larger area than an endemic or an epidemic, infecting more people and causing more deaths.
text: Epi” in “epidemic” means “among” or “upon,” so an epidemic is among the people or upon the people; and “pan” means “all,” so a pandemic is affecting all the people.