Hi everyone, I'' m Abby Carlson. I'' m a transmittable diseases physician here at the Centers for Disease Control
as well as Avoidance in Atlanta, Georgia. Invite back to Inside Infection Control,
our brand-new blog site from Task Firstline. We are mosting likely to clear up today
a distinction that you see a lot, which is these 2 terms
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, as well as comprehending what those mean. We see these terms in lots of locations in
healthcare, and a great deal of individuals have questions, since it'' s not always entirely clear
what the connection is between both. So, we'' re going to make clear that. SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the infection–
the main clinical name– of the germ that causes
the illness COVID-19. This can be actually confusing,
yet it'' s really not all that uncommon. There are other times in medication
where a virus has one name and also the illness that creates it
is called something else.One example that you all could be much more familiar with is chickenpox. Chickenpox, the condition, is that rash that you possibly got in youth or perhaps you obtained immunized versus it. But the infection that causes chickenpox, the disease, is named Varicella-zoster infection. That'' s its official taxonomic name. So, in a similar way, since SARS-CoV-2 is the authorities taxonomic name of the virus that causes COVID-19, when we chat about the infection and also what it carries out in the body to make individuals ill, we utilize its official name. The locations you'' ll most likely see this most in medical care is in screening and also examination results, where those results are commonly reported by that official scientific name of SARS-CoV-2.
You may likewise see it a little when people speak about the vaccine. On the various other hand, COVID-19 stands for Coronavirus illness 2019, CARBON MONOXIDE VI D 2019. It'' s the health problem that individuals fall victim to, the fever, the cools, the cough, the trouble breathing, all those other signs that individuals have when they'' re infected with the virus. So, COVID-19 is the disease, the signs that you fall victim to, and also it'' s how we mostly speak about the pandemic. So to sum it up, we obtain infected with SARS-CoV-2, which makes us get ill with the disease COVID-19. However obviously we wear'' t wish to obtain infected and we don'' t wish to get ill, and also we put on'' t want to spread it to others. As well as that is where infection control comes in. If you'' re questioning at this factor, “Well, what'' s an infection?” come back for the following episode, we'' re mosting likely to speak more concerning that, and afterwards why that issues for infection control as well as healthcare.As always, wear '
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