coronavirus outbreak vocabulary

You might already know but at least you can practice your English and I'll put some of these words and various terms into sentences pandemic pandemic is an outbreak of disease that's widespread this prefix pan indicates that disease is spread throughout the world virus of virus is a very very small living organism that duplicates itself inside a host such as a human body hunker down to hunker down is to remaining one place usually your home and outstay there for an extended period of time until an emergency situation passes panic buying when there's any sort of uncertainty about the future sometimes people will go to the store the grocery store and buy as much food as they can because they're not sure of when that food will be available in the futures now people are engaged in panic buying this panic buying includes other things such as toilet paper hand sanitizer and soap so if you go to the store and you can't find what you need it’s because there's been a lot of panic buying a person who panics does something out of fear here's the word as a verb or as a noun and panicking is the situation notice the difference in spelling panic and then panicking in this case you need to add the K and then the in ending panicking people are panicking a quarantine refers to an area that is sealed off to other people so government can impose a quarantine and say that people can neither enter nor leave an area or if a person realizes hero she has the coronavirus then they might do a self-quarantine and then keep themselves away from other people so afoul think you have the virus that you might go into self-quarantine and stay away from other people contact tracing one person has the virus and then there’s an effort to tell anyone who had contact with that person that this person is infected and then these people can tell others that they had contact with this person contagious a person who is contagious can spread the virus to other people symptoms. Symptoms are the physical condition that indicate a person has some sort of a sickness so with the corona virus the symptoms are dry so kind of sounds like this that's a dry cough there's no phlegm coming up and then it's also possible a person has fever that's a very common symptom and then also there's difficulty breathing in some cases people are having trouble breathing because their lungs are filling up with some sort of a substance that makes it difficult to breathe thesis in some cases similar to pneumonia of course I'm not a doctor so if you exhibit any of these symptoms see a doctor fever your body temperature is higher than normal so normal in the Fahrenheit scale is 98.6 if your temperature is 100or 102 or 104 then you have a fever on the Celsius scale normal temperature is37 so if your temperature is 38 or 39 or40 then you have a fever she has a fever she has a temperature these are about the same or you can also say she feels hot this is when another person puts the hand on the forehead and feels forehead and will say something like he feels hot or she feels hot this is how my mother took my temperature she put her hand on my forehead and then she knew a person who is symptomatic is showing symptoms indicating that he or she has a virus but in this case the coronavirus is being spread or it's thought that it’s being spread by people who prepare-symptomatic they're not showing symptoms yet or they're asymptomatic they have the virus but they're not exhibiting any sort of symptoms or their illness is fairly mild but they have the virus and they're spreading it to other people without anyone realizing idiom

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