PHEIC

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feɪk/
• Homophone: fake

Noun

PHEIC (plural PHEICs)

1. (healthcare, medicine) Acronym of public health emergency of international concern.
   • 2020 April 10, Stephen Buranyi, “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In 2005, the WHO drew up a new version of the International Health Regulations (IHR), the central legal document that all member states are bound by. […] It also allows the WHO to declare a public health emergency of international concern (or PHEIC, pronounced, incredibly, “fake”), using its own information, over the objection of any single country.

Anagrams

• Piche, Piech