COVID pandemic
Global viral crisis
The COVID pandemic refers to the global outbreak of COVID-19, a respiratory illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which began spreading in late 2019 and was declared a pandemic by the WHO in March 2020.
The phrase often appears with the definite article: During the pandemic, we all worked from home.
It serves as a temporal marker dividing recent history into before and after: pre-pandemic, post-pandemic.
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- stay homeNot go anywhere
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- travel banProhibition on journeys
- masksFace-covering disguises
vaccine · isolation · ventilator · outbreak · contagion · contact tracing · virus · symptoms · ICU · social distancing · Wuhan · flatten the curve · two weeks · toilet paper · essential workers · zoom · Zoom fatigue · sanitizer
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- 2000s History9/11, September 11, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Arab Spring
COVID pandemicherd immunity
Widespread resistance protecting all
health security · clean bill of health · eradication · disease eradication · all-clear
COVID pandemicnormalcy
State of being typical
economic boom · freedom of movement · open society · business as usual · social gathering
COVID, pandemic, pandemics, endemic, epidemic, epidemics, epidemiology, epidemiological, epidemiologist