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So you think you can talk COVID? An A-Z glossary for understanding the pandemic – Sydney Morning Herald
Do you know your asymptomatic from your presymptomatic carriers? Prefer to say SARS-CoV-2 to coronavirus? Here’s a quick guide to “covidese”.
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From flattening the curve to donning and doffing at the door, decanting the elderly out of aged care or perhaps being caught out in a semi-intimate meeting after curfew just as the pandemic has uprooted so much of our lives, it has also infected our vocabulary.
Epidemiologists have suddenly become the rock stars fronting our television screens, and their language is becoming the worlds as we weather the COVID-19 storm.
But what are the theo…
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