With Covid-19 severely disrupting lives, ‘coronavirus’ featured among the most-searched words in India on a search engine Google this year.
As per Google, coronavirus appeared in the top 10 overall list of trending terms this year globally and among the most searched health terms, the majority of Indians wanted to know “What was coronavirus”, followed by a battery of questions like, “What is COVID-19”, “What is Plasma Therapy”, Coronavirus prevention tips, ‘COVID test near me’
Let’s take a look at these most-searched health trends in 2020, along with their answers and a pinch of history:
- What is coronavirus?
Coronavirus topped the Google search list in 2020. On February 11, 2020, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, charged with naming new viruses, named the novel coronavirus, first identified in Wuhan, China, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, shortened to SARS-CoV-2.
Coronavirus is a viral disease that infects the lungs and causes breathing trouble along with fever and cough.
- What is Covid-19?
Covid-19 is the name given to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Many people wonder why the disease and the virus are given different names.
It is caused by one of the members of the coronavirus family. Interestingly, this member was never been encountered before.
On 11 March 2020, WHO declared the Covid-19 outbreak as a pandemic and reiterated the call for countries to take immediate actions and scale up the response to treat, detect, and reduce transmission to save people’s lives.
- What is plasma therapy?
‘Plasma’ is a blood’s liquid component that carries hormones, antibodies, and various nutrients across the body.
Convalescent Plasma Therapy is a medical procedure in which the plasma is collected from people who were infected with Covid-19 and have made a complete recovery.
The people who have completely recovered develop antibodies and these are then used to treat serious Covid-19 patients by transfusing it into the blood of patients.
- ‘COVID test near me’
Coronavirus testing has been very much in the news. The first and most urgent focus is on increasing access to tests to diagnose people with current infections.
Researchers suggested that testing was one of the most effective ways to stop the spread of the deadly virus. All these factors led to people looking for safe tests for Covid-19, without going very far from their residences, given the lockdown measures that were in place for months.
Coronavirus prevention tips
Till the time a vaccine is not developed enhancing the body’s natural defense system plays an important role in maintaining optimum health.
People in 2020 searched for immunity-boosting tips, in order to keep their body healthy and ready to fight the infection.
