COVID-19
- 1A sickness caused by a virus that mainly attacks the lungs and makes breathing hard.
Like a bad case of the flu, but caused by a different germ that can be more serious.
Many people caught COVID-19 during the cold winter months.
She stayed home from work for a week while she had COVID-19.
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- 2The worldwide spread of a new coronavirus illness that began in early 2020.
Schools across the country closed for months during COVID-19.
Many small businesses struggled to stay open because of COVID-19.
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- 3The tiny germ that gets into the body and causes the illness COVID-19.
Like a tiny invader too small to see that makes copies of itself inside your body.
COVID-19 spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes near others.
Washing your hands often helps stop COVID-19 from spreading.
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Origin
It is short for "coronavirus disease," and 19 stands for 2019, the year the virus was found. The World Health Organization made the name in 2020.