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tridemic

noun

Etymology

From tri- + pandemic.

  1. derived from *deh₂-✻ — “to divide, share”
  2. derived from *peh₂-✻ — “to protect, shepherd”
  3. derived from πάνδημος — “of or belonging to all the people, public”
  4. prefixed as tridemic — “tri- + pandemic”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of tripledemic (“a combination of three pandemics”).

    • "We are potentially going into what people are calling a 'tripledemic,' or a 'tridemic,'" warned Orange County health officer Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, who on Monday declared a health emergency amid a surge in RSV cases.
    • The current rise in Covid-19 cases is one leg of a triple threat – a "tridemic," a "tripledemic" or a "trifecta," as some news organizations are calling it – along with a bad flu season and an RSV outbreak hitting mainly children.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA