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All the Coronavirus Terminology You Need to Know

A simple glossary of complicated and previously obscure words related to the pandemic

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
18 min readMay 1, 2020

The global pandemic of 2020 has spawned an outbreak of complex and unfamiliar words, including two that are brand new: SARS-CoV-2, the shorthand name given to a new coronavirus that hopped from animals to humans in December 2019; and…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Wise & Well, independent health and wellness journalist, author of Make Sleep Your Superpower.