COVID-19
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/
ipa: /ˈkʌ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/
ipa: /ˈkəʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtiːn/
ipa: /ˈkɒ.vɪd naɪnˈtiːn/
Forms: form: Covid-19
Etymology: Abbreviation of coronavirus disease + 19 from 2019, the year the virus was discovered. Coined by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020. Intended to avoid stigma by not referring to a place, animal, career, or group of people.
Senses: examples: text: diagnosed with COVID-19
text: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.
ref: 2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization:
text: This week, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a a monoclonal antibody combination for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients
ref: 2021 February 12, “Coronavirus (COVID-19) update”, in U.S. Food & Drug Administration:
text: Indonesia reported a record daily number of 1,566 COVID-19 deaths on Friday, taking total fatalities to 80,598, data from the country’s COVID-19 task force showed.
ref: 2021 July 23, “COVID-positive man boards Indonesia flight disguised as wife”, in Aljazeera:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: coronavirus disease 2019
2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease
Wuhan pneumonia
Wuhan flu
hypernyms: COVID
coordinate_terms: pneumonia
severe acute respiratory syndrome
Middle East respiratory syndrome
glosses: COVID-19 (disease)
examples: text: Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment.
ref: 2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization:
text: As we enter the first months of 2021, increasing numbers of reports of variants of the COVID-19 virus mark a new development in the pandemic.
ref: 2021 February 5, “Redoubling public health measures needed due to COVID-19 virus variants”, in World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2021:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
synonyms: China virus
Chinese virus
Wuhan coronavirus
Wuhan flu
Wuhan virus
kung flu
hypernyms: virus
coronavirus
coordinate_terms: influenza
MERS-related coronavirus
SARS-related coronavirus
glosses: SARS-CoV-2 (virus that causes the COVID-19 disease)
examples: text: Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.
text: The pandemic has helped cement a view of the human as collective, prosocial, and sharing a common bond between all people. This shared experience of living (and dying) during COVID-19 has proved a unifying force.
ref: 2022, Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard, Warren Pearce, “Conclusion:Thinking about 'the Human' during COVID-19 Times”, in Stevienna de Saille, Paul Martin, editors, Being Human During COVID-19:
text: A second insight offered by our study is that several stresses apparent at the start of COVID-19, such as adapting to working from home, persisted during the pandemic, and new stresses emerged.
ref: 2022, Roland Duculan, Deanna Jannat-Khah, Xin A. Wang, Carol A. Mancuso, “Psychological Stress Reported at the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Subsequent Stress and Successful Coping in Patients With Rheumatic Diseases: A Longitudinal Analysis”, in Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, volume 28, number 5, →DOI:
glosses: The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020, and ended sometime in the mid 2020s.
Derived terms: COVID toes
Related terms: the rona
Miss Rona