claim: nein, eine hohe sterblichkeitsrate war bei der who nie voraussetzung für „pandemie“-definition
summary: the news spread on social media in germany that in 2019, the world health organization changed its definition of pandemic excluding the requirement of a high mortality rate. according to the claims, without those changes the coronavirus epidemic would not be considered a pandemic. this is not true, however, as the definition has remained the same for a long time
subject_description: claim that who changed its definition of pandemic the year before the coronavirus outbreak in 2019, to delete the requirement of a high mortality rate that was previously necessary to announce a pandemic
Motive_Description: undermine the credibility of the world health organization, by suggesting that strangely enough it changed the definition of "pandemic" the year before coronavirus
author_description: general public
keywords: coronavirus, germany, who, world health organization, mortality, rate, 2019, change, definition, pandemic