コロナ vocabulary

Japanese Language
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Do you have anything to add? Is everything correct? I’m trying to understand the news on TV.

Situation words:
コロナ禍, コロナか corona situation
過去最多、 かこさいた：record highest
ロックダウン：lock-down
緊急事態宣言、きんきゅうじたいせんげん、Declaration of a state of emergency
蔓延防止, まんえんぼうし、quasi state of emergency
防止対策 , ぼうしたいさく：preventative measure
不要不急, ふようふきゅう：nonessential and non urgent
自粛、 じしゅく：self-restraint
重症者、 じゅうしょうしゃ：the seriously ill
重症患者, じゅうしょうかんしゃ、seriously ill patient
検疫 、けんえき：quarantine
デルタ株、 デルタかぶ、delta variant
変異株（へんいかぶ）: variant/mutant strain

Results:
陽性、ようせい、positive test result
陰性、いんせい、negative test result
無症状、むしょうじょう、asymptomatic
症状、しょうじょう、symptomatic
確定患者（かくていかんじゃ）: confirmed patient (as in someone who tested positive, rather than a suspected case)

Vaccine words:
接種、せっしゅ、vaccination
接種済み、せっしゅずみ、vaccinated
未接種、みせっしゅ、unvaccinated

注射ちゅうしゃ jab, shot, injection, etc.
ワクチン jab, shot, injection, etc.
副作用 ふくさよう、side effect (generic word)
副反応 ふくはんのう、side effect (vaccine word)

Words that start with かん:

感染、かんせん、infection
感染症 かんせんしょう：infectious disease
感染予防、かんせんよぼう、infection protection
感染症対策 かんせんしょうたいさく：infection control measures
感染拡大、かんせんかくだい、infection increasing
感染減少、かんせんげんしょう、infection decreasing

Now if only I could remember all that.

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These are more like just “positive (test result)” and “negative (test result)”

There’s a difference between whether a test shows something and the reality of if what it’s testing for.

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Great idea!

Here are some others words I’ve seen in some recent news articles.
感染症 かんせんしょう：infectious disease
防止対策 ぼうしたいさく：preventative measure
不要不急 ふようふきゅう：nonessential and non urgent
自粛 じしゅく：self-restraint
感染症対策 かんせんしょうたいさく：infection control measures
重症者 じゅうしょうしゃ：the seriously ill
検疫 けんえき：quarantine
過去最多 かこさいた：record highest
ロックダウン：lock-down

And I’ve heard these in conversations.
検査 けんさ： inspection (usually used in regards to getting tested for corona?)
副反応 ふくはんのう：side effect (not sure what the difference between 副作用 and this is, but I’ve heard both used)

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Well it’s no wonder why I couldn’t understand the news. I didn’t know any of these words until today.

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Are the Japanese outlets not talking about the gamma and lambda variants? This virus could soon have more mutations then the x-men

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Maybe add them to Anki or read lots of corona related news? (I might actually do that, come to speak of it) Then it should stick after a while (: it’s a great list! I

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陽性妖精, the positive test result fairy.

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It’s honestly a lot of vocab that didn’t appear that often before the whole covid situation, so really understandable.

I still can’t remember most of these off the top of my head yet, even with the words often coming up in conversations around me :sob:

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陽性(ようせい)さん tests positive but still comes into work

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I want to be infected by whatever variant is played by Halle Berry.

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I’m pretty sure 接種 means “vaccination”, while 接種済み would mean “vaccinated.”

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Halle, Famke, January, Gina Carrano, Anna Paquin, Olivia Munn… There are lots of great infection choices in the franchise.

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A thousand thank yous
I was wondering what the difference was

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Welp… at least ロックダウン is easy to remember.

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Nice, so useful!

One thing I noticed–
緊急事態宣言 （きんきゅうじたいせんげん） Is “declaration of a state of emergency,” 宣言 being “declaration” or “announcement.”
So 緊急事態 （きんきゅうじたい) would be “state of emergency.”
:grin:

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I can proudly add one to the list:

モデルナアーム

Hurts more than I’d have imagined…

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Just a couple I’ve found useful:

確定患者（かくていかんじゃ）: confirmed patient (as in someone who tested positive, rather than a suspected case, I believe)
変異株（へんいかぶ）: variant/mutant strain

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Thanks! I will update this word

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Thanks! Added.
I kind of regret studying these words because on TV all I hear is vaccine vaccine vaccine

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Really? I’ve found that most segments related to the pandemic contain a lot of these.