 coronavirus, and COVID-19. Several wonder if those are the same or different than one another. Coronavirus is an umbrella term that includes several different viruses. Some of those viruses have been eliminated through vaccination, whereas others are inactive or dormant. COVID-19 is a virus that surfaced this past winter of 2019, not in the year 2020. People started getting COVID-19 becoming ill, and some fatalities occurred due to this, whereas others healed after a long battle. Now, scientists, medical doctors are exploring ways to find a cure for coronavirus or COVID-19. They're looking for a vaccination to help people avoid getting it. So how did the term COVID-19 come to life? If you look at the word coronavirus, they took the CO from corona, the VI from virus, and D, meaning disease, to come up with the word COVID. The number 19 is included because it first surfaced in 2019, not 2020, which is why we call it COVID-19.