A Covid-19 patient infects, on average, two to three other people, but a superspreader can infect far more people than that. — Alexandra Koch/Pixabay
During the Covid-19 pandemic, several medical terms have been used in the public domain, especially on social media.
Some of these terms in the pandemic lexicon have given rise to misperceptions.
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