Our world is now being flooded with new words in coverage of the coronavirus
worldwide pandemic. Here is a glossary of terms in case you aren’t up on the most
recent testing and medical jargon. We begin with the nomenclature of this virus.
Terms are listed within thematic groupings.
Coronavirus: A classification of viruses which may cause breathing
difficulties, fever, diarrhea and pneumonia. About 7 coronaviruses are known to
infect human beings, which includes 4 which may cause the common cold. A few
are possibly deadly.
SARS-COV-2 also known as "novel coronavirus": The reference
for the virus which has rapidly spread around the globe, which caused
infections in millions of humans. The number "2" is supposed to
distinguish the coronavirus from the virus which led to the SARS epidemic.
COVID-19: The reference of the disease which may be caused by
SARS-COV-2. COVID-19 stands for "coronavirus disease 2019," as Wuhan,
China doctors originally discovered people sick with the disease in 2019.
Epidemic: An abrupt rise in the quantity of cases of a disease within
a certain geographic region beyond the quantity health experts normally expect.
A rise in a fairly small geographic region or among a small circle of people might
be referred to as an "outbreak."
Pandemic: ‘An epidemic that occurs around the world, or over an
extremely broad region, which crosses international boundaries and typically affects
a massive quantity of people’ -- Dictionary of Epidemiology. On March 11, 2020,
WHO declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, and described it as ‘the 1st
pandemic that is caused by a coronavirus.’
Transmission: How the virus gets from person to person. In the instance
of SARS-COV-2, scientists believe the virus is mainly spread through the
respiratory path, via close contact with an infected individual, whose
virus-laden droplets get expelled from the mouth or nose and discover their way
into the mouths, noses, and eyes of other people.
Aerosolized virus particles: Tinier than droplets, the particles may
be expelled by an infected person. They’ll hang inside the air longer than bigger
droplets that usually fall because of gravity. However, their part in COVID-19 transmission
isn’t yet clear.
RT (Rate of transmission): The average quantity of individuals every
coronavirus carrier goes on to infect — referred to as "effective
reproductive number." If every subsequent generation of fresh infections
decreases (if rate of transmission <1), the virus ultimately vanishes. An
area's rate of transmission depends upon local policies, as well as how individuals
behave.
Superspreading event: Once an individual infected with a pathogen
passes it to an abnormally high quantity of individuals. With coronavirus, massive
case clusters resulted from choir practices, business conferences, family
gatherings, funerals, and cruises, among additional settings.
Viral shedding: The point that an infected individual releases
viral particles from their bodies that might or might not be contagious
depending upon the infections’ stage. It may occur through activities such as
coughing, sneezing, singing, speaking, and breathing.
Fomite: The object covered with virus particles, potentially due
to someone recently sneezing or coughing respiratory droplets onto it. A phone
or countertop might become fomites if contaminated — as well as serve as a possible
"indirect" transmission source if someone touches the virus-covered surface
then introduces that virus into their mouth, nose, or eyes.
Asymptomatic: Someone who’s asymptomatic is infected with
SARS-COV-2 yet never develops any infection symptoms.
Presymptomatic/asymptomatic spread: Once an infected individual
who does not have any disease symptoms transmits the coronavirus to another
person.
Herd immunity: The concept that if enough individuals in a single space
develop virus immunity, through vaccination or exposure, the virus does not
have any new individuals to spread to; therefore, it’ll burn itself out.
Comorbidity: Medical condition which increases an individual's
risk of becoming extremely ill if they develop coronavirus. Those conditions involve
type 2 diabetes, severe heart conditions, obesity, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD), and chronic kidney disease.
Testing: A process that determines if someone is, or recently has
been, infected with the disease.
Positive test rate: Percentage of folks tested, confirmed to have COVID-19.
For SARS-COV-2, the officials at the World Health Organization report that a
positive test rate of 10 percent or less might be a sign that a community is performing
sufficient tests to find the majority of cases.
Antibodies: Proteins generated by an individual's immune system to
battle an infection. In the instance of COVID-19, antibodies usually take around
1 to 3 weeks after infection to develop in measurable quantities.
Pool sampling: Testing strategy in which samples from various
individuals are combined into a bigger batch that’s tested for the existence of
COVID-19.
Peak: Day, or stretch of days, that have the greatest quantity of deaths
or cases reported in any given period, as viewed in a day-to-day breakdown (additionally
referred to as an epidemic curve).
Rolling average: Quantity of new confirmed deaths or cases,
averaged over a few days.
Second wave: New crop of COVID-19 infections in a region in which
public health officials brought transmission down to low levels.
Incubation period: Time from exposure to pathogen to time symptoms
develop.
Isolation: The act of physically separating individuals known to
be ill from the ones who are healthy. Hospitals typically place patients who
are ill in isolation in order to prevent disease spread.
Quarantine: Restriction or separation of movement of people appearing
to be healthy yet might’ve been exposed to an infectious disease to check if
they become ill. The quarantine’s length depends upon the disease’s incubation
period. For example, during the outbreak of Ebola, it was 21 days. For
coronavirus, the suggested time span is fourteen days.
Contact tracing: Finding, as well as notifying individuals who might’ve
come into contact with someone infected with a disease in order for them to
take steps to prevent the disease from potentially spreading.
Social distancing: Remaining a specific distance from others in outdoor
and indoor settings to lower someone's opportunities of receiving or spreading
virus-laden respiratory droplets — CDC recommends 6’.
Zoonosis: All diseases that spread from animals to humans.
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