SARS-CoV-2

[ sahrz-koh-vee-too ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 2: the strain of a coronavirus that causes COVID-19. First identified in 2019, it subsequently set off a global pandemic.

Example Sentences

Zhu, who has a background in biophysics and has recently designed new vaccines for viruses including HIV, SARS-CoV-2 and hepatitis C, thought that if he could understand the precise mechanism of why the pre-fusion F protein was so unstable, especially why it is so easy to open, he could make a more stable form -- and, in turn, a better vaccine.

From Science Daily

“I believe,” Noymer said, “that the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are that it’s ... an experimental virus that escaped from a lab and Tony Fauci is intimately linked to the funding for experiments that created this virus.”

From Los Angeles Times

The study indicates that the increased risk “shows no apparent signs of attenuation up to nearly three years after SARS-CoV-2 infection and suggest that COVID-19 continues to pose a significant public health burden with lingering adverse cardiovascular risk,” they wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

Rajnarayanan doesn’t believe we need to worry about XEC in the sense that it represents a substantially new form of SARS-CoV-2, as when the first Omicron appeared on the scene with new symptoms and vast number of new cases, spawning an entirely new branch on the virus’ evolutionary tree.

From Salon

A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, suddenly breaks out like a horse from the gate, leaving the rest of the race behind.

From Salon