The pandemic/epidemic and solar terrestrial relation: A brief study with special reference to COVID-19

Abstract

The pandemic is the outbreak of a deadly virus that may affect the entire global population unlike an epidemic which confines to a city, region or a country. The word pandemic comes from the Greek pandemos meaning "pertaining to all people" as the deadly “new” virus was found to be easily human transmissible causing in general more numbers of deaths than epidemics. The past reports however show that both pandemics and epidemics could claim millions of lives with no treatment or instant remedies and perhaps, even at the present time these are the most serious threats to the existence of global community. Identification of the sources of the epidemic /pandemic outbreaks is extremely difficult mainly because of the inherent complex nature of the virus itself added by the non uniform records of infected-case data and in many cases reliability of the published /available reports. Therefore, such an attempt of source identification when tried with solar activity that started decades back both with statistical analyses and empirical relations, the results and analyses seem to vary from one to the other. However, with the progressive improvement in data quality and availability of compatible reports from wide platforms, one can expect now in attaining a comprehensive picture in identifying the sources associated with outbreak of such events. Therefore, in tune to the trend of earlier studies, the present paper examines the aspect of association on the outbreaks of such events with solar activity by analyzing the significant & deadly epidemic/pandemic cases that occurred within 18 to 21 century. The contributions of https://doi.org/10.33665/IJEAR.2021.v07i02.003 International Journal of Electronics and Applied Research (IJEAR) vol. 7, issue 2, Dec 2020 Online (http://eses.net.in/online_journal.html) ISSN 2395-0064 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright @ESES IJEAR 25 environmental aspects and atmospheric variabilities to mass causalities are also brought in to discussions in brief with special reference to the COVID-19 pandemics.