write coronavirus (covid-19) related words in copy and find their meaning too
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Coronavirus
You're probably wondering why this is on the list. Well, there are a couple of important things to keep in mind. First, coronavirus isn't the name of any one kind of virus. There's an entire family of coronaviruses -- called Coronaviridae -- and some of them cause the common cold. What we're dealing with now is a "novel", as in new, coronavirus. We didn't know about it until a couple of months ago, when authorities were trying to understand what was causing a cluster of mysterious pneumonia cases in China's Wuhan city. Second, coronaviruses are named for the crown-like effect created by the spike proteins on their surface. "Corona" means crown in Latin.
Covid-19
Short for Corornavirus Disease 2019, this is the name of the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Notice that it doesn't tell you where the virus first emerged. That's not by accident: the World Health Organisation chose a name that would avoid attaching stigma to locations (like China's Wuhan city) or ethniticies. But is that necessary? You bet. Consider the reports of racism targeting Asians or people of Asian origin in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. [A note on the pronunciation of Covid-19: don't spell the letters out -- say "covid" like a word, followed by the number 19.]
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Mortality (or fatality) rate
This is the percentage of infected people who die. We still can't say with certainty what this number is for the new coronavirus disease, but here are a couple of estimates. On March 3, the World Health Organisation reported a global mortality rate of 3.4%, suggesting the disease is deadlier than the seasonal flu (with a death rate less than 1%). Two past epidemics caused by coronaviruses, MERS and SARS, had much higher mortality rates. (Soon after WHO announced the 3.4 figure, US President Donald Trump raised an eyebrow or two with his "hunch" that it was a "false number".)
In February, a study of 44,672 confirmed cases in Mainland China said 2.3 per cent had died. But the rate showed significant variation with age. It was 14.8 per cent for the 80+ category, and just 0.2% for the 10-19, 20-29 and 30-39 groups. It was also higher for men (2.8%) than for women (1.7%).