Language has changed and adapted too, we have got used to a medical and technical jargon that some moths ago was completely unknown.
I have decided that it would be interesting to summarize some of the most commmon words and expressions that are here to stay.
I must thank Oxford and Cambridge blogs for their useful posts on it.
Some of the words you see in the photo above are quite common nowadays, but I thought it could be great to know some others that are also present in the news we listen to or read everyday.
Referring to people we can talk about.....
(a)symptomatic (adjective): showing symptoms or not of a particular disease - She had no idea her husband had coronavirus because he was asymptomatic.
Carrier (noun)= portador: a person or animal that transmits a disease to others, whether suffering from it themselves or not - People who are asymptomatic can still be carriers.
It is important to track those people to avoid virus spreading and get immunity...
Contact tracing (noun)= rastreo: identification and monitoring of people who may have had contact with an infectious person - By insisting on strict contact tracing as soon as someone was potentially infected, they managed to control the spread of the disease.
Droplets (noun)= aerosoles : the spray produced when people cough or sneeze, and which can spread diseases - Health care personnel wear protective clothing to guard against the disease carried in droplets when infected people sneeze or cough.
Not to get infected it is important to have the correct protection....
Personal protective equipment (PPE) (noun)= EPI: special clothing, headgear, goggles, masks and other garments that shield people from injury or infection. - Much of the PPE worn by doctors and nurses has to be worn once only and destroyed after use.
Vaccine (noun)/ˈvæksiːn/: a substance used to protect humans and animals from a disease- A vaccine for cholera was invented in 1879.
You could be tested with a PCR test using a swab (hisopo) or with an antibodies / antigen test (test de anticuerpos).
If you are not lucky enough and you are infected you can have some of these symptoms:
rash ( erupciones) sore (dolores)
vomiting, headache, fever ( fiebre), fatigue, cough ( tos) chills (escalofríos),
breathless ( problemas respiratorios)
Some governments have taken measures such as curfews (toques de queda), lockdowns (confinamientos) or restrictive timetables, but please try to avoid
panicbuying (buying large quantities of
particular products because of fears of shortages) or stockpiling ( store large quanties of stuff)
If you want to know more or practice with this vocabulary, I recommend you to watch the following video
or read the following blog by Oxford with an interesting post by Janet Phillips
https://learningenglishwithoxford.com/2020/03/27/the-language-of-coronavirus/
or do the following lesson plan for level B2, C1 by Cambridge
