#10 Talking about COVID-19, health and illness

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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