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missing information on how pandemics end

The article says nothing about how pandemics end. In fact, it doesn't even mention that they do. There is also no information here or anywhere else on WP on this topic or even on changes in virulence, not even in that article.

Even more absurd is that even that article doesn't even mention transmission-virulence trade-off or the researchers Roy M. Anderson and Robert May.

Even more absurd is that the latter article doesn't even mention the former and neither article mentions that these researchers disproved the so-called law of declining virulence. In fact only that redirected link leads to an article that has sources on research that disproved that "law", though even that article failed to mention until yesterday that it has been disproved... --Espoo (talk) 08:08, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

.....That you added yourself, and then had it rejected because "Disprove" is not a conclusion supported by the research you seem to be leaning on here. Rather than shooting off insults, I'd advise going over the wikipedia rules on original research, and adjust your efforts accordingly. Duckmonster (talk) 03:49, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pandemic

COVID 19 or corona virus 223.235.117.110 (talk) 12:52, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

1900-1950s polio epidemic a pandemic?

The article Polio now describes the 1950s Polio epidemic as a pandemic:

Small localized paralytic polio epidemics began to appear in Europe and the United States around 1900.[155] Outbreaks reached pandemic proportions in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand during the first half of the 20th century.

Does this qualify polio as a notable outbreak for the pandemic article? Robert P. O'Shea (talk) 14:25, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Current state vs. history

Moved images according to it. --Medupdate3 (talk) 09:53, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Transcription

I think it would be great to add transcription of the word so non-english speakers can pronounce it better 195.91.12.142 (talk) 15:08, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've added it, using a template that we have for this purpose. I'm sorry that you had trouble getting this into the article. I suspect that not everyone recognizes IPA. Schools in the US don't usually teach it, except in some linguistics and music classes at university. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:39, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I feel like this argument could be made for just about every article title on here. Given the current state of the encyclopedia, I don't believe this is entirely necessary, unless it's part of some broader shift toward including a pronunciation alongside the title of every single article (which I would be more supportive of). If there's confusion as to how to pronounce a word, Wiktionary is an excellent resource for this type of information. In the case of "pandemic", though, if we're going to include the pronunciation in the article, I would recommend using the pronunciation that Wiktionary provides (and the only pronunciation I've ever heard as a native speaker of English): "/pænˈdɛmɪk/". There is no possibility of producing this pronunciation if relying solely on the transcription currently included in the article. However, as I disagree with this addition, I feel disinclined to make the change; I sense an WP:EDITWAR brewing with all these edits and reversions, and I shall take no part in it. At the very least, let what's included — whether etymology or pronunciation — be accurate in its own right. Nabbovirus (talk) 06:20, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]