Coronavirus (COVID-19) definitions
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Antibody
Antibody test
Antigen
Asymptomatic
Confidence interval
Contact tracing
Coronavirus
COVID-19
Credible interval
Cycle threshold
Deprivation
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Endemic
Epidemic
False-positives and false-negatives
Flattening the curve
Furlough
Herd immunity
Immunity
Incidence rate
Incubation period
IQVIA
Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC)
Lockdown
Nose and throat swabs
Odds ratio
Outbreak
Pandemic
Pathogen
Patient zero
Pillar 1
Pillar 2
Pillar 3
Pillar 4
Positivity rate
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Prevalence
Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland)
Public Heath England (PHE)
Public Heath Scotland
Public Heath Wales (PHW)
Quarantine
R nought
Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT)
SARS-CoV-2
Self-isolation
Seroconversion
Serology
Seroprevalence
Seroreversion
Shielding
Social distancing
Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M)
Test and Trace
Vaccine
Virus
World Health Organization (WHO)
ZOE
Zoonotic disease
