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pan-Covid en · ADJ

Etymology

From pan- + Covid.

Meanings

1. (neologism, not-comparable) Covering all strains of the COVID-19 virus.
   • Will changing variants require constantly updated vaccines or can a pan-COVID-19 vaccine be created? 2022 February 15, “A Future of Living With COVID-19: Defining the Known Unknowns”, in Contagion, Cranbury, NJ: MultiMedia Healthcare:
   • 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 24, David Axe, “COVID’s Turbo-Mutation Is Killing This Vax Dream, So What’s Next?”, in The Daily Beast:
   • The pan-Covid jab is set to enter human trials within months. 2022 January 29, Jamie Walker, “‘Batman’ to the rescue with Covid immunity breakthrough”, in The Weekend Australian, Darwin, page 1:
   • The pan-COVID-19 vaccine candidates stimulated the production of cytokines, specifically interferon-γ and interleukin-2, and induced neutralizing antibodies targeting the ancestral, Delta, and Omicron variants. 2026, Yoo Jin Na, Eun Bee Choi, Kwangwook Kim, Seungyeon Kim, Seo Young Moon, et al., “Design and immunogenicity evaluation of pan-recombinant vaccines based on the consensus sequence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 spike protein”, in Scientific Reports, volume 16, →DOI:

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