Citations:coronaphobia

Noun: "(neologism) fear or hysteria caused by COVID-19 and the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic"

 * 2020, Alexandra Mae Jones, "'Coronaphobia' is spreading in Canada, professors say", CTV News, 21 February 2020:
 * However, the authors write that the most visible way that “coronaphobia” may be affecting Canadians’ behavior may not be changes to their hygiene practices, but an increase of reports of xenophobia within the country.
 * 2020, Charlie Smith, "Insanity over COVID-19 inflicts real pain on Chinese-owned businesses in Metro Vancouver", Georgia Straight, 22 February 2020:
 * To their credit, Health Minister Adrian Dix, Burnaby mayor Mike Hurley, and several Burnaby councillors and provincial politicians, as well as NDP MP Peter Julian, visited the Crystal Mall yesterday to show their support for Chinese-owned businesses suffering the fallout from coronaphobia.
 * 2020, Charlie Smith, "B.C. MLA Andrew Weaver expresses his exasperation over a coronaphobia-induced run on toilet paper", Georgia Straight, 8 March 2020:
 * And, as Weaver noted, there wasn't any toilet paper on the shelves—all due to what some are calling "coronaphobia".
 * 2020, Ben Ong, "The crash we have to have", Financial Standard, Volume 18, Number 5, 16 March 2020, page 28:
 * The global freezing (of economic activity) wrought by coronaphobia is shaking what has become an orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe.
 * 2020, Serkan Aydın, "Coronaphobia fuels anti-Chinese sentiment: Op-ed", Hürriyet Daily News, 24 March 2020
 * 2020, Ben Ong, "Coronaphobia sickens Japan", Financial Standard, Volume 18, Number 6, 30 March 2020, page 29:
 * That was bad then ... and that was before coronaphobia.
 * 2020, Greg Budell, "'One Flu Into A Cuckoo's Nest'", Boom!, April 2020, page 52:
 * This novel virus has produced epic Coronaphobia.
 * 2020, "‘Coronaphobia’ spreading quickly among people: Experts", Hürriyet Daily News, 3 April 2020:
 * In preventing coronaphobia, Çelik stressed that the media has played a significant role.
 * 2020, AiR, Fear: False Expectations Appearing Real, page 67 (published 30 April 2020):
 * Coronaphobia is probably the greatest phobia the world has seen in the last hundred years.
 * 2020, Ciaran McGrath, "UK faces unexpected threat as 'coronaphobia' risks economic recovery - worrying study", Daily Express, 1 May 2020
 * 2020, James Wood, James Tapsfield, & Jack Elsom, "Commuters could be told to check their temperatures before leaving home and six foot rule could be relaxed as Boris Johnson plans to get Britain back to work by May 26 despite Britons suffering coronaphobia", Daily Mail, 1 May 2020:
 * The measures will also try to allay the cautious public's 'coronaphobia' after polls showed opinion overwhelmingly weighing in behind extending the lockdown.
 * 2020, Henry Holloway, "Lidl becomes ‘first supermarket to close a UK store due to coronavirus’ after staff struck down with bug", The Sun (UK), 3 May 2020:
 * It came as a poll last week revealed two thirds of Brits were suffering from “coronaphobia” and were too scared to leave the house or return to work.
 * 2020, Allison Pearson, "Is this a life worth living – or merely an existence?", The Telegraph, 5 May 2020:
 * The economic tsunami is coming, you can be sure of that, which is why the UK needs to get over its coronaphobia – and fast.
 * 2020, Ahmed Naguy, Seshni Moodliar-Rensburg, & Bibi Alamiri, "Coronaphobia and chronophobia – A psychiatric perspective", Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 51 (2020):
 * Suicidality as a release or relief from ‘incurable illness’- coronaphobia or a feeling of beak [sic] and barren future might be an ultimate tragedy. Sorely, COVID-19-related suicides have been recently reported from India.