In this episode, we are going to talk about COVID-19. Since the rest of the world is talking about it, I said, "Oh well, let's make the most of it and learn to talk about health and illness."
Vocabulary related to COVID-19 or health and illness:
access to healthcare
acute
alleviate
attack (the virus attacks...)
be in poor health
be/feel under the weather
Carrier
come down with
Community spread
Contagious
Containment
contract
cope
Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2
diabetes
droplets
Epidemic vs. pandemic
Fatality; deadliness
Fatality/Mortality rate; death toll
Flatten the curve
from person to person; person-to-person transmission
heart disease
high blood pressure
High-risk population
home remedies
immune system
Incubation period
infect
infected
Infectious
lethargy
Lockdown, isolate, isolation, self-isolate, quarantine, social distancing
Mitigation
Outbreak
positive (test positive or negative)
prevent
serious illness
Shortness of breath
spread
sweep the globe
Symptomatic/Asymptomatic
the WHO (abbreviation for the World Health Organization)
transmit
Underlying medical problems; pre-existing medical conditions
vaccine, vaccinate, vaccination
Waterborne; airborne
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