scariant
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]scariant (plural scariants)
- (informal) An unconfirmed or unstudied variant or strain of COVID-19 that causes widespread panic.
- Public health officials derided the X-MPLE strain as a "scariant" last night.
- 2022 January 11, Aude Mazoue, “Covid variant or ‘scariant’? Experts warn a future ‘Deltacron’ is possible”, in France24[1]:
- Initial reactions have been sceptical at best, with prominent experts suggesting the apparent new strain looks more like a “scariant” – an unconfirmed strain causing a global scare – than a variant.