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In a sign of just how much Covid-19 has dominated the global news media in 2020, the words "coronavirus" and "covid-19" showed up in the multilingual stopwords lists we compiled earlier this week, meaning they were among the top 250 words in global news coverage in a number of languages, including English, over the past year and a half!