AstraZeneca

English + vaccine Etymology From AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that created the vaccine. The company name was formed by the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca. Astra is from en grc ᾰ̓́στρον star, whereas Zeneca, the company stated, “is an invented name, created by an agency instructed to find a name which began with a letter from either the top or bottom of the alphabet and was phonetically memorable, of no more than three syllables and did not have an offensive meaning in any language.”17 October 2019 AstraZeneca 1184743333605847040 AstraZeneca https://web.archive.org/web/20191017090236/https://twitter.com/AstraZeneca/status/1184743333605847040 1 Proper noun ~ s en neologism The COVID-19 vaccine made by the AstraZeneca company. en 2021-04-01 Tim Key No More Jockeys 4 5 5:10 Have you been injected with AstraZeneca, la la la la la? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVvoadxuX_g en https://www.tvo.org/article/please-put-a-shot-of-astrazeneca-in-my-arm 2021-04-15 Please put a shot of AstraZeneca in my arm Just a few weeks ago at TVO.org, I wrote about the anecdotes I’d been hearing of people who were outside of the targeted age range getting AstraZeneca doses at pharmacies lest vaccine spoil. TVO Today Matt Gurney https://web.archive.org/web/20210507131317/https://www.tvo.org/article/please-put-a-shot-of-astrazeneca-in-my-arm 7 May 2021 en 2 July 2021 The NT News Darwin 22 2 I am over the age of 60. I have a choice of AstraZeneca, AstraZeneca or AstraZeneca - or die of Covid. en "Mixing and matching, so for example, two AstraZenecas, and then a Pfizer, or even one AstraZeneca and a Pfizer, actually gives a really good immune response," he said. COVID Pfizer vaccine booster shots have been approved — here is what we know so far 2021-10-27 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-27/covid-vaccine-booster-shots-coming-after-pfizer-trials/100571496 John Skerritt ABC News (Australia) https://web.archive.org/web/20260304082529/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-27/covid-vaccine-booster-shots-coming-after-pfizer-trials/100571496 4 March 2026 References en COVID-19