Global Syn-WHAT?
The phrase “global syndemic” immediately drew my sustained attention when it first appeared as a result of an initiative and study produced by the science journal Lancet in January of this year. tldr: Scroll down to the 3 minute video explanation. Most folks know PANdemic as an outbreak of illness that brings about large-scale loss of health, impacting whole continents or multiple continents. A SYNdemic is a cluster of related pandemics–a synergistic epidemic. The bad news is that together, their impact is greater than …