The Economist's Daily Chart published a fascinating set of charts last week tracing elevated dictionary lookups on Merriam Webster's site for various terms that have featured prominently in the Covid-19 discourse. Yesterday we looked at how those terms have been covered on television news, which got us wondering how their usage in online news stacks up. The following graphs trace usage of the same terms in global online news since the start of this year.
Epidemic
Pandemic
Quarantine
Self-Isolation
Draconian
Lockdown
Triage
Martial Law
Cancel
Panic
Hoarding
Force Majeure
