pandemic deaths
Mass contagion casualties
Pandemic deaths are fatalities caused by or occurring during a widespread disease outbreak.
The term gained everyday currency during COVID-19, appearing in news reports, policy debates, and casual conversation: The pandemic deaths kept climbing through the winter.
The phrase often carries political weight, as counts become contested and prevention measures debated.
- mortalityState of eventual death
- coronavirusSpike-ringed viral family
- COVIDCoronavirus disease abbreviation
- tollFee for passage
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
fatalities · victims · mass graves · surge · ventilators · hospitals · hospital beds · ICU · lockdown · quarantine · flatten the curve · social distancing · grief · overwhelmed · bodies · body bags · statistics · wave
- mortalitydeceased, mortality, mortality rates, dying, dead
- health statisticsmortality rate, prevalence, case fatality rate, life expectancy, infant mortality
- Mass Deathswar casualties, massacres, mass starvation, Holocaust, atomic bombs
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse