Pan-covid

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Covering all strains of the COVID-19 virus. neologism, not-comparable

    "A pan-COVID vaccine gets ahead of the pathogen. Lineage-specific vaccines chase after it. Barton Haynes, an immunologist with Duke University’s Human Vaccine Institute, called the latter approach “whack-a-mole.”"

Example

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"A pan-COVID vaccine gets ahead of the pathogen. Lineage-specific vaccines chase after it. Barton Haynes, an immunologist with Duke University’s Human Vaccine Institute, called the latter approach “whack-a-mole.”"

Etymology

From pan- + Covid.

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