twindemic
nounEtymology Blend of twin + pandemic.
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Two pandemics happening simultaneously, such as flu and COVID-19.
- Tonight it is being called a potential ‘twindemic’, the flu season and COVID coinciding this fall with deadly results.2020 August 21, “CDC urges all Americans to get flu shots amid fears of ‘twindemic’”, in NBC:
- 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.2022 May 7, Liang En Wee, Edwin Philip Conceicao, Jean Xiang-Ying Sim, May Kyawt Aung, Aung Myat Oo, et al., “Dengue and COVID-19: Managing Undifferentiated Febrile Illness during a ‘Twindemic’”, in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, →DOI:
- Related terms
- flurona, quademic, tripledemic