Coronavirus

Coronavirus (CoV) refers to ''a large family of viruses that cause diseases, ranging from the common cold to serious diseases such as MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and SARS-CoV (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). Coronaviruses are zoonotic, which means that they are transmitted between animals and humans''.

Terms

 * anosmia
 * BMI
 * care home
 * case fatality rate (CFR)
 * cluster
 * confinement
 * contact tracing
 * emergency laws
 * endemic
 * epidemic
 * epidemiologists and virologists
 * exit strategy
 * fortnight
 * frugal four
 * golfgate
 * herd immunity
 * incidence rate
 * infection fatality rate (IFR)
 * isolation
 * lockdown
 * lockdown relaxation
 * medical breakthrough
 * mortality rate
 * nursing home
 * obesity
 * outbreak
 * pandemic
 * PCR test
 * physical distancing
 * positivity rate
 * post-lockdown
 * PPE
 * quarantine
 * R0, the basic reproduction rate
 * Re, the effective reproduction rate
 * resuscitation bed
 * self-confinement
 * social distancing
 * Sputnik V, the first vaccine, according to the Russians
 * symptoms
 * travel restrictions
 * vaccine

Studies

 * PubMed.gov, Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents, by Kampf G, Todt D, Pfaender S, Steinmann E, in The Journal of public infection, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.01.022
 * CDC.gov, How is pandemic flu different from seasonal flu?