Possible Clues:

• Covering a wide area
• Disease fear -- medicine (in short supply) about to be brought in
• Pot half caught in widespread outbreak
• Hysteria surrounding 50% cut of demand from extensive sickness
• Be afraid to take in democrat with widespread disease
• Disease starts to develop everywhere, maybe — be alarmed about that
• Widespread health problem has US politician in state of alarm
• God half-caught in major disaster
• Great terror about medical upset -- widespread disease
• Damn epic about world-wide disease