novel coronavirus

[nov-uhl kuh-roh-nuh-vahy-ruhs]

noun

Pathology.

1. 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

First recorded in 1985–90; applied to SARS ( def. )

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.

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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.

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Unlike the once "novel" coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, H5N1 is nothing new and has been documented since the '90s.

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“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.

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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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