pan-Covid

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English[edit]

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

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pan- +‎ Covid.

Adjective[edit]

pan-Covid (not comparable)

  1. (neologism) Covering all strains of the COVID-19 virus.
    • 2022 January 24, David Axe, “COVID’s Turbo-Mutation Is Killing This Vax Dream, So What’s Next?”, in The Daily Beast:
      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 29, Jamie Walker, “‘Batman’ to the rescue with Covid immunity breakthrough”, in The Weekend Australian, Darwin, page 1:
      The pan-Covid jab is set to enter human trials within months.
    • 2022 February 15, “A Future of Living With COVID-19: Defining the Known Unknowns”, in Contagion, Cranbury, NJ: MultiMedia Healthcare:
      Will changing variants require constantly updated vaccines or can a pan-COVID-19 vaccine be created?
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