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novel coronavirus
[ nov-uhl kuh-roh-nuh-vahy-ruhs ]
- a coronavirus that has not previously been detected or reported: : nCoV
the public health threat of novel coronaviruses such as COVID-19.
Word History and Origins
Origin of novel coronavirus1
Example Sentences
I was one of a handful of patient zeros, the first cohort of Americans to test positive for the novel coronavirus in March 2020.
Series creator Dan Erickson and executive producer Ben Stiller have been working on "Severance" in some form since 2015, and Apple picked it up to series in 2019 – well before that nasty novel coronavirus ground life to a halt.
Unlike the once "novel" coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, H5N1 is nothing new and has been documented since the '90s.
“If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified,” Bhattacharaya wrote.
Bhattacharaya argued that public health experts were almost certainly overstating the danger of the novel coronavirus, suggesting the fatality rate was far below what we were being told.
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