#3 COVID: One year on

It's about COVID-19's vocabulary:

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• pandemic

---->They prayed for an end to pandemic disease throughout the world.

• take hold

---->The economic recovery is just beginning to take hold now.

• wimpy

---->I'm far too wimpy to go rock climbing.

• sheer

---->The suggestion is sheer nonsense.

• kick in

---->The county will be able to spend more when a new tax kicks in next year.

• genome

---->Although the copy numbers of the vector genome were reduced, our data did not rule out promoter shut-off completely.

• lockdown

---->The school was put on lockdown and police were dispatched for extra security for a couple days until threat was minimized.

• outbreak

---->However, there are some things that are difficult to explain if we wish to argue that garlic caused this outbreak.