Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has brought many new words and phrases into everyday use. Some existed before but are used more now. Others have entered our vocabulary over the past couple of months
- COVID-19
- corona
- coronavirus
- PPE
- furlough
- covidiot
- coronacoaster
- stockpiling/hoarding
- risk groups
- lockdown
- partial lockdown
- staycation
- lockdown levels
- quarantine
- self-distancing
- self-isolation
- herd immunity
- lag (in statistics)
- backlog (in statistics)
- temporary redundancy
- disease carrier’s allowance
- quaranteen
- quaranten (the weight you put on while staying at home)
- contact tracing
- pandemic
- the front-line
- ventilators
- respirators
- Skype (as a verb)
- Zoom
- Teams
- Kudo
