second wave

plural second waves

1. biologyA phenomenon that can develop during a pandemic where after a group recovers and infections appear to decrease, another group becomes infected and causes a recurrence in cases.

   A second wave of Covid-19 now seems to be a racing certainty. And a gathering avalanche of numbers attests to an economic disaster that is probably already upon us.

   2020 July 19, John Harris, “Now Britain stands at the crossroads. Will we choose dread or hope?”, in The Guardian

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   Earlier this afternoon, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield stated that a second wave of the coronavirus would be even “more difficult” than the original.

   2020 April 21, Sai Balasubramanian, “A Second Wave Of Coronavirus Is Likely Inevitable”, in Forbes

2. second-wave feminism

   Understanding gender 'as a question rather than an answer', contextual, nonprescriptive and inherently intersectional, parafeminism sheds 'some of the closures and limitations' of the second wave […]

   2017, Alexandra M. Kokoli, The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice, page 61