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CorSalud 2020; 12 (2)

Terminology and writing in COVID-19 times

Hernández RY, López DL, López REF

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 184-188
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Before we begin, we want to “greet” (saludar) in a special way, the community of scientists who are fighting this large pandemic today, especially since it seems that this verb has also mutated with coronavirus1; we read the latter in the News section of the website Fundéu BBVA (Fundación del español urgente, Madrid), created in 2005, under the sponsorship and advice of the Real Academia Española (RAE [Royal Spanish Academy]) to ensure the proper use of the Spanish language in the media, mainly the news media. Paradoxically, this term comes from the Latin salutare, with the meaning of “wish for health” or “to say health”; currently, this word and the gestures associated with it have gone to the opposite extreme of its meaning, to the point that right now a saludo (greeting) is synonymous with “taking health away” through contagion, instead of giving or offering it.
When in January 2020, the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) was officially recognized by the Chinese authorities as the causative agent of a series of previous cases of pneumonia diagnosed in Wuhan, China, and the disease that produced this virus, named, in its original language, Novel Coronavirus Infectious Disease 2019 –from which its well-known acronym COVID-19 arises–, was declared, the same month, by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an emergency of international concern, and as a pandemic on March, no one imagined the avalanche of new terms, and others of not very frequent use, that would begin to swarm in the health community.


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