found: Work cat: Morelock, J. Pandemics, authoritarian populism, and science fiction, 2021: ECIP galley (presently the representation of the "diseased Other" is to be found in pandemic, which is a terrifying unseen phenomenon since it can eliminate an entire population on earth)(DLC)2020043278
found: Salisbury, Preston and Joy DuBose, Controlled vocabulary and authorities, 2021 :(pandemics are intended to represent a larger geographical spread than epidemics, which may occur in a single city)
found: Merriam-Webster online, Oct. 29, 2020:pandemic (noun: def. 1: an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affects a significant proportion of the population : a pandemic outbreak of a disease) epidemic (noun: def. 1: an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time : an outbreak of epidemic disease; synonyms or near-synonyms: pandemic)
found: MeSH, July 30, 2021(Pandemics; scope note: Epidemics of infectious disease that have spread to many countries, often more than one continent, and usually affecting a large number of people; MeSH tree BT>Epidemics)