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pan-Covid

pan-Covid adjective: covering all strains of the COVID-19 virus.

Adjective

pan-Covid (not comparable)

  1. (neologism) Covering all strains of the COVID-19 virus.
    • 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.”2022 January 24, David Axe, “COVID’s Turbo-Mutation Is Killing This Vax Dream, So What’s Next?”, in The Daily Beast
    • The pan-Covid jab is set to enter human trials within months.2022 January 29, Jamie Walker, “‘Batman’ to the rescue with Covid immunity breakthrough”, in The Weekend Australian, Darwin, page 1

Forms of pan-Covid

alternative formpan-COVID
alternative formpan-COVID-19

Origin of pan-Covid

From pan- + Covid.

Questions about pan-Covid

What does pan-Covid mean?
Pan-Covid means covering all strains of the COVID-19 virus.
What part of speech is pan-Covid?
Pan-Covid is an adjective.

Words near pan-Covid in the dictionary

  1. pan-broil
  2. pan-broiled
  3. pan-broiling
  4. pan-broils
  5. Pan-ch'iao
  6. pan-Covid
  7. pan-curious
  8. pan-deism
  9. pan-deist
  10. pan-deists
  11. pan-disability

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