World Health Organization Declares COVID-19 A Pandemic Harold Fisher March 11, 2020 at 1:36 pm in CORONAVIRUS, NEWS Tweet The World Health Organization is declaring the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus a pandemic. That essentially means the virus is a threat to the entire planet. It has killed nearly 44-hundred people and infected more than 121-thousand in more than 100 nations. More than one thousand people in the U.S. have the virus and it has claimed nearly 30 lives here. Tags: COVID-19, Pandemic, The World Health Organization