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

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.

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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!”

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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.

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Another claim from the compilation of supposed mRNA vaccine harms that was cited as a reason for cutting funding for mRNA technology is that mRNA vaccines cause mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus that make them resistant or less susceptible to the vaccine.

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When the SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants emerged in the spring and fall of 2021, mRNA vaccines became less effective in preventing infections.

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