The global crisis caused by the new coronavirus has been reflected in the social, political and economic spheres of almost every country in the orb. The language, the most important means of communication of human beings does not escape this reality. Because words are not isolated either in the communicative act or in the language itself, and that their use is conditioned by the historical and social context in which they occur, it is appropriate to study precisely this linguistic space in which sets of words corresponding to this topic or scope of reality relate. Therefore, this work aims to study the conceptual network registered in the associative field of the word COVID-19. For the conduct of the research, 30 informants (healthy and non-diseased people) were selected distributed equally (15 men and 15 women) from the city of Santiago de Cuba; that belonged to different age groups and who had a different degree of instruction to achieve as heterogeneous a sample as possible. From the word inducing, in this case the acronym naming the disease (COVID-19), the speakers wrote ten words that spontaneously associated with this term. The results showed that these associations are grouped into six conceptual spheres (reality or concept, emotional states, sequelae or consequences, health prevention, values and attitudes, among other associations) which include a repertoire of lexical units that revolve around nuclei or nodes established from significant relationships between words. The study found that the associations gathered in the field studied represent very diverse semantic relationships that include, from the purely linguistic, to other aspects of a cultural, social or economic order.
