https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epz5gn/the-worlds-largest-organism-is-breaking-up-scientists-warn

“The pando'' has become a casual way to refer to the COVID-19 pandemic, but deep in the woods of central Utah, the Pando is the name for what scientists regard  as the largest living organism in the world:over 40,000 massive aspen trees that are actually a single organism thought to stem from the same root. And despite thriving for several centuries, perhaps even millenia, this 106-acre beast is "breaking up" due to human influence.

“To the untrained eye, it looks like deer and cattle are the villains here, but both of those species are highly manipulated by humans,” Paul Rogers, an ecologist at Utah State University who published a recent study on the disintegrating Pando in the journal of Conservation Science and Practice, told Motherboard.