Abstract

  COVID-19 pandemic has become a chronic, serious challenge for all healthcare professionals at practice, universities and research institutions. Even a common place is peppered with scientific terms related to Covid-19. Also, Covid-19 has created a learning platform for every individual making them theoretically and practically more skilful with respect to numerous Covid related medical, epidemiological and organizational terminologies and abbreviations. Hence this review enlists various Covid-19 related terminologies and abbreviations in alphabetical order through a detailed literature, media and social media search.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; Jargons; Pandemic

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Citation

Citation: Praveena Raman. “Covid-19 Pandemic Jargons: Literature, Media and Social Media Hunt". Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports 2.1 (2021): 16-23.

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