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Coronavirus: The Words You Need To Understand The News


The world is currently affected by a special situation. We are facing a complicated health crisis. That is why it is essential to know the appropriate vocabulary:

The most important vocabulary in my opinion:
to understand what it is and the steps to take..

What particular situation are we talking about? What is this virus called? 


To begin, the virus is called:

COVID-19:


COVID-19 is a highly infectious respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus. The disease was discovered in China in December 2019 and has since spread around the world.

COVID is short for coronavirus disease. The number 19 refers to the fact that the disease was first detected in 2019.

The technical name of the virus that causes COVID-19 is severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, abbreviated as SARS-CoV-2.



But on what 'scale' does this virus affect us ?

Pandemic: 


A pandemic is a disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world. A pandemic is an epidemic that has spread over a large area.
The World Health Organization (WHO) specifically uses pandemic to refer to new diseases people do not have immunity for and that have spread worldwide. The WHO has declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.
Pandemic can be both a noun and an adjective (e.g., a pandemic disease).

In the face of this disease, we may feel certain symptoms: 

Symptom :

Symptom is a phenomenon that arises from and accompanies a particular disease or disorder and serves as an indication of it.
Major symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, dry cough, fatigue, and difficulty breathing.

Necessary measures to avoid propagation:

Mitigation :

Disease mitigation are measures taken to slow the spread of infection. Quarantine, isolation, and social distancing are forms of mitigation.

Washing your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds is one important thing to do to help prevent the spread, or mitigate, COVID-19.


Quarantine :

Quarantine is a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
In public health, people are placed in quarantine when they are not currently sick, but have been or may have been exposed to a communicable disease. This helps stop the spread of the disease.
Self-quarantine is when someone isn’t ordered to go into quarantine but chooses to do so out of caution; also called voluntary quarantine.

Furlough :

As we can't go to work, we have to work at home. This is called "teleworking", and it concerns an amount of people. Many human activities are stopped. 
A furlough is a usually temporary layoff from work. 
During the coronavirus outbreak, many workers were furloughed as businesses conducting non-essential activities were closed. This was done to prevent the spread of the disease by banning large gatherings as a form of social distancing.

screening :

Screening is examining a person to see if they have a disease. This frequently involves taking their temperature, asking about symptoms, and asking about potential exposures to infected people.

Social distancing :


Social distancing refers to measures that reduce contact between large groups of people.
Social distancing measures often entail canceling big gatherings (such as conferences, classes, church services, concerts, and sporting events), restricting mass transit and travel, and working from home.
The CDC specifically recommends maintaining a distance of 6 feet (2 meters) between people.
During the coronavirus outbreak, people commonly spoke or wrote of hunkering down at home as they practiced social distancing.

Flatten the curve :


Flatten the curve means slowing the spread of an epidemic disease so that the capacity of the healthcare system doesn’t become overwhelmed. The curve represents the number of cases over time, and flattening that curve means preventing a huge surge of new cases in a very short period of time.

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