vaccine shopping

See also: vaccine-shopping

English

This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

Alternative forms

• vaccine-shopping

Etymology

Compare shop around (“to actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor”).

Noun

vaccine shopping (uncountable)

1. (neologism) The practice of seeking out a certain vaccine that one considers to be superior to other available options, and refusing those other options.
   • 2021 March 1, Robert Weisman, “State officials, community leaders try to dissuade residents from vaccine ‘shopping’”, in The Boston Globe‎^[1]:

     Because vaccines remain in short supply in the United States, there’s been little evidence of vaccine shopping. But preferences have cropped up in Europe, driven partly by nationalism […] and partly by a hunt for the most effective shot possible.

Related terms

• vaccine-shop
• vaccine shopper