evidence: WHO Declares COVID-19 a Pandemic - PMID: 32191675 - PMCID: PMC7569573 - DOI: 10.23750/abm.v91i1.9397 [...] The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic (1). At a news briefing , WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted that over the past 2 weeks, the number of cases outside China increased 13-fold and the number of countries with cases increased threefold. Further increases are expected. He said that the WHO is "deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction," and he called on countries to take action now to contain the virus. "We should double down," he said. "We should be more aggressive." [...]. [...] References - - WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID19 -March 2020 - - CIDRAP-Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. 11 March 2020 - - Srinivas M, Gomersall CD, Fowler R. Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 JAMA. Published online. March 11, 2020 doi:10.1001/JAMA.2020.3633. - PubMed