pan-Covid

English

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

Alternative forms

• pan-COVID
• pan-COVID-19

Etymology

From pan- +‎ Covid.

Adjective

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?