So I was searching pandemic history and what actually makes a pandemic since this is clearly not one. I came across a pdf about the WHO changing their definition of pandemic during the h1n1 debacle and the controversy surrounding it at the time. {Don't know how to link the pdf}

Here's an interesting quote from the piece:

What sparked the controversy Since 2003, the top of the WHO Pandemic Preparedness homepage has contained the following statement: “An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity, resulting in several simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous num- bers of deaths and illness.”6 However, on 4 May 2009, scarcely one month before the H1N1 pandemic was declared, the web page was altered in response to a query from a CNN reporter.7 The phrase “enormous numbers of deaths and illness” had been removed and the revised web page simply read as follows: “An in- fluenza pandemic may occur when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity.” Months later, the Council of Europe would cite this alteration as evidence that WHO changed its definition of pandemic influenza to en- able it to declare a pandemic without having to demonstrate the intensity of the disease caused by the H1N1 virus.3>