twindemic
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- Rhymes: -ɛmɪk
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twindemic (plural twindemics)
- Two pandemics happening simultaneously, such as flu and COVID-19.
- 2020 August 21, “CDC urges all Americans to get flu shots amid fears of ‘twindemic’”, in NBC:
- Tonight it is being called a potential ‘twindemic’, the flu season and COVID coinciding this fall with deadly results.
- 2022 May 7, Liang En WeeEdwin Philip ConceicaoJean Xiang-Ying SimMay Kyawt AungAung Myat Ooet al., “Dengue and COVID-19: Managing Undifferentiated Febrile Illness during a ‘Twindemic’”, in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, :
- This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:twindemic.
