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Epidemic in sentence

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Now there is an epidemic of obesity: two-thirds of adults and 15 percent of kids.
The center for disease control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions, is the number one health concern for women in this country and abroad.
In the U.K. we have an epidemic of facial injuries among young people.
Because until we do, we will not heal this epidemic.
Only we're not living with each other; our crazy selves are living with each other and perpetuating an epidemic of disconnection.
But something else happened in the early 1980s, and that was that there was a mysterious epidemic of failures of tape drives all over the United States.
However, we now believe that this is the first sighting of a new disease, which is now an epidemic spreading through Tasmania.
And our minds immediately turned to cervical cancer in women, which is spread by a virus, and to the AIDS epidemic, which is associated with a number of different types of cancer.
The reality is that we are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, and it's not simply limited to our country.
In response to this prescription epidemic, people have been cut off, and this has greatly reduced the street supply The unintended but predictable consequence is an overdose epidemic.
Can you imagine if this was any other kind of poisoning epidemic?
But for the drug overdose epidemic, we have done none of that.
Lots of people using drugs, high crime rates and an overdose epidemic.
We talked to as many random people as we could and collected hundreds of personal stories about race, stories that revealed how racial injustice is a nationwide epidemic that we ourselves spread and now can't seem to recognize or get rid of.
Shame is an epidemic in our culture.
Large families still, and the HIV epidemic brought down the countries like this.
Teen pregnancy, like I said, is epidemic.
If you know something more, you probably know that Uganda, to date, is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa that has had success in combating the epidemic.
If you follow policy, you probably know that a few years ago the president pledged 15 billion dollars to fight the epidemic over five years, and a lot of that money is going to go to programs that try to replicate Uganda and use behavior change to encourage people and decrease the epidemic.
So today I'm going to talk about some things that you might not know about the epidemic, and I'm actually also going to challenge some of these things that you think that you do know.
To do that I'm going to talk about my research as an economist on the epidemic.
But this talk is going to be about understanding facts about the epidemic.
I think it may seem like I'm ignoring the policy stuff, which is really the most important, but I'm hoping that at the end of this talk you will conclude that we actually cannot develop effective policy unless we really understand how the epidemic works.
And the first thing that I want to talk about, the first thing I think we need to understand is: how do people respond to the epidemic?
The epidemic is getting worse.
People aren't changing their behavior enough to decrease the growth in the epidemic.
What I really want to do, is I want to use this new data to try to figure out what makes the HIV epidemic grow faster or slower.
The epidemic was introduced to the US by actually one male steward on an airline flight, who got the disease in Africa and brought it back.
And that was the genesis of the entire epidemic in the US.
And I hope that I've convinced you maybe that it's important to understand things about the epidemic in order to think about policy.
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