SARS-CoV-2

American  

[sahrz-koh-vee-too] / ˈsɑrzˈkoʊ viˈtu /

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.

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Example Sentences

Biedermann continues: "The data obtained clearly shows that the concept of highly energetic water molecules is physically founded -- and that those very water molecules are a central driving force during the formation of molecular bonds. Even natural antibodies, for example against SARS-CoV-2, might owe their effectiveness partly to the way how they transport water molecules into and out of their binding cavities."

From Science Daily

During 2020 and 2021, for instance, these methods enabled the rapid decoding and worldwide monitoring of the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

From Science Daily

SARS-CoV-2 Variant Properties -- Covering 3,800 spike protein variants, this dataset links structural predictions from AlphaFold2 and ESMFold with ACE2 binding and expression data.

From Science Daily

She’s distracted by intrusive thoughts, sentence fragments, out-of-the-blue hallucinations, even her own fraught relationships, placing the blame on SARS-CoV-2: “It has come all this way, she thought, cradling the thing in her chest; has passed through the hands of invention or chance, white lab coats, wet markets, the gates of the zoo … to land in her squarely, like love!”

From Los Angeles Times

However, the vast majority of these articles aren’t about vaccines but about the harms of getting infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

From Salon