prepandemic

alternative pre-pandemic

1. not comparableBefore a pandemic.

   The growth, fueled by strong consumer spending and robust business investment, brought output, adjusted for inflation, back to its prepandemic level.

   2021 July 29, Ben Casselman, “The U.S. economy grew 1.6 percent in the second quarter, returning to prepandemic size.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   Whereas the overall risk benefit in prophylactic vaccination against pandemic and prepandemic lethal viral fevers was declared positive by the WHO, the use of squalene emulsions to adjuvant vaccines against a disease caused by a non lethal protozoan parasite is at least uncertain.

   2016 March 3, “Ultradeformable Archaeosomes for Needle Free Nanovaccination with Leishmania braziliensis Antigens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

   The things that used to make my day in prepandemic times were small and unplanned for — noticing a street sign that prohibited the capture of pigeons or overhearing one stranger scolding another for ordering salad at a barbecue restaurant.

   2022 April 5, Michal Leibowitz, “‘I Didn’t Feel Like Going, but I’m Glad I Did’: My Motto of the Moment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Antonyms: postpandemic