10 words to understand better the COVID-19 pandemic


10 WORDS RELATED TOTHE COVID-19 AND THEIR DEFINITIONS 

If I understood well the purpose of this article, I think that our task was to choose 10 words out of the glossary that they offered. And hence we would be able to have a full comprehension of the news information about the current pandemic called COVID-19. Therefore I thought that it would be more logical to choose the words that I didn't know before reading this article. 

WORD 1 : furlough

As I said I didn't know what this word meant but it happened to be a temporary layoff from work.

So just as telecommuting, these are words that were not very usual, but since multiple governments decided to close all non-essential businesses and banned any non-necessary activity, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, a lot of workers have been furloughed. 

WORD 2 : herd immunity

Herd immunity is the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.


WORD 3 : immunocompromised

Immunocompromised means having an impaired or compromised immune response; also referred to as immune-compromised or immunodeficient.


WORD 4 : mitigation

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

WORD 5 : R0

Pronounced and also written as R-naught, R-nought, or R-zero. The R stands for reproduction or reproductive.
R0 is the average number of people that a person with an infectious disease is expected to spread the infection to (in population immune to the disease). In other words, if one person is infected, how many other people will they infect?
R0is also called the basic reproduction rate. If R0 is greater than 1, it can spread in a population and cause an outbreak.

WORD 6 : 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.

WORD 7 : shelter in place

In general, shelter in place is an order to stay in a safe place indoors due to an emergency (e.g., extreme weather, chemical hazard) until given permission by authorities to evacuate. The specifics of a shelter-in-place order varies depending on the emergency.
During the coronavirus outbreak, shelter in place refers to orders for people to stay at home and not leave unless absolutely necessary. They are put into place to prevent the further spread of the disease and allow health professionals to more effectively treat patients.
An order to shelter in place is different from a secure in place or lockdown, which more strictly forbids people to leave a location during an emergency. These measures are sometimes popularly described as draconian, or very harsh and severe.
WORD 8 : super-spreader

A super-spreader, or superspreader, is a person infected with a pathogen (such as a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism that produces a disease) and spreads it to an unusually large number of individuals who aren’t infected.

WORD 9 : viral load


Viral load is the amount of a virus in a sample, especially a person’s blood or other bodily fluids. Viral load is typically measured as the number of virus particles per milliliter.
The term viral load is especially used in reference to the amount of HIV in a person’s blood.
WORD 10 : zoonotic
Zoonotic means “relating to any disease of animals communicable to humans.” The noun form is zoonosis.

Comments

  1. Philippe Thivillier24 April 2020 at 05:05

    OK Lea. You made a personal choice which you explained quite convincingly ('choose the words that I didn't know before reading this article')
    Have a nice weekend.

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