Thread by @WesElyMD

1/🧵 #Coronavirus Words 📕
 
Words matter!

These 4 new words were added to the @MerriamWebster dictionary last month…
 
📍Breakthrough medical infection
📍super-spreader
📍#LongCOVID
📍Vaccine Passport
 
Defined below…
 
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2/ Breakthrough medical: infection occurring in someone who is fully vaccinated against an infectious agent — often used before another noun (as in “breakthrough cases” or “breakthrough infection”).

3/ Super-spreader: an event or location at which a significant number of people contract the same communicable disease (as in a “super-spreader event”). The term super-spreader originally referred only to a highly contagious person.

3/ Long COVID: defined as a condition marked by the presence of symptoms (eg, fatigue, cough, shortness of breath, headache, or brain fog) which persist for an extended period of time (weeks or months) following a person's initial recovery from #COVID19.

@MerriamWebster

4/fin
Vaccine passport: a physical or digital document providing proof of #vaccination against one or more infectious diseases (such as #COVID19).

NOTE: This definition of #LongCOVID does not even mention Antibodies. We have a ways to go in developing our working definition of the constellation of suffering after #COVID (~20-30% if initially symptomatic, ~10% if asymptomatic).

@patientled @Survivor_Corps @Dr2NisreenAlwan