Pandemics are a spread of disease covering

An extensive geographical area

Explanation:

A pandemic, a word that comes from the Greek pandêmon nosêma, from παν (pan = all) + δήμος (demos = people) + nosêma (= disease), expression that means sickness of a whole people is the affectation of an infectious disease of humans throughout a geographically extensive area.

In May 2009, WHO changed the definition of a pandemic. Before this change, "Pandemic" was defined as: "Infection by an infectious agent, simultaneous in different countries, with a significant mortality in relation to the proportion of the infected population". In the new definition of "pandemic" the characteristic of "mortality" has been eliminated.

the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.