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COVID

noun
SayKOH-vidUS/ˈkoʊvɪd/UK/ˈkəʊvɪd/AUS/ˈkɐʉvəd/

1 meaning of COVID

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    noununcountableabbreviationclipping
    Clipping of COVID-19.

    She lost her sense of smell after recovering from COVID.

    Hospitals filled with COVID patients during the first wave.

    Note

    The clipped name stretches as far as the full one does. Besides the disease, it can stand for the virus, SARS-CoV-2, or for the pandemic as a whole. It behaves as a mass noun: someone has COVID, never a COVID. Public health bodies used the bare form early on. The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Pan American Health Organization both put it in 2020 slogans, as in "COVID is no joke."

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