This app became the unofficial sponsor of quarantine, with users spending hours learning dances and trying viral recipes.
What is Tik Tok?
This household item became more valuable than gold in March of 2020.
What is toilet paper?
This is the term optometrists use to describe perfect eyesight.
What is 20/20 vision?
This health protocol required individuals exposed to illness to isolate, often for 14 days
What is quarantine?
This 14th-century pandemic killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe and was spread in part by fleas on rats.
What is the Black Death (or bubonic plague0?
In this dating show couples got engaged in their pods without ever seeing each other.
What is Love is Blind?
Everyone suddenly became obsessed with this fermented bread starter.
What is sourdough?
In a year full of screen time, many of us considered buying these for our eyes.
What are blue light glasses?
This strict measure required people to stay home and non-essential businesses to close
What is lockdown?
What is polio?
What is Tiger King?
This was the official measurement of the pandemic.
What is 6 feet?
This surgery reshapes your cornea with lasers.
What is LASIK?
This five letter abbreviation became a household term for the respiratory disease caused by a novel virus in 2019.
What is COVID?
This viral illness caused a global pandemic in 1918, infecting a third of the world's population and killing more people than WWI.
This video conferencing app was downloaded by millions to work, learn and socialize from home.
What is Zoom?
This gel-based germ-killer became liquid gold in 2020.
What is hand sanitizer?
People use this phrase to describe lessons learned after the fact.
From the Greek for "all" and "people", this word refers to a disease outbreak that affects the entire globe.
What is the pandemic?
Transmitted through blood and bodily fluids, this virus emerged in the 1980's and led to a global health crisis.
What is HIV/AIDS?
This three-letter acronym became a standard arrangement as offices closed and employees performed their jobs remotely.
What is WFH?
This respirator -designed to filter out over ninety percent of airborne particles- was reserved early in the pandemic for frontline workers.
What is an N95 mask?
This eye test helps determine your visual acuity.
What is the Snellen chart?
Often confused with the illness it causes, this term refers to the virus itself, not the disease.
What is coronavirus?
This disease, once a major cause of death worldwide, was officially eradicated in 1980 thanks to a global vaccination campaign.
What is smallpox?