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Sam0Mclone 0 points ago +1 / -1

I don't know where they got the CDC's definition of epidemic. Technically that's not how the CDC defines an epidemic, I happened to know this one:

"Epidemic refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in that area."

https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section11.html