zero-dose
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Failing to receive any routine vaccination; having received no doses of a particular vaccine.
Example Sentences
- "To do this, it is important to update existing estimates of the frequency of zero-dose children in countries with recent data. Next, there is a need to understand how children move out of the zero-dose group towards full immunisation."
- "Before the vaccination campaign, 17.3% of children under 9 months were DTP zero-dose and 4.3% of children 9–60 months were measles zero-dose."
- "Over a 24-year period in India, child zero-dose status was shaped by large-scale social inequalities and remained a consistent marker of generalised vulnerability. Interventions that address this cycle of intergenerational inequities should be prioritised."
- "One in five children worldwide are now zero-dose or under-vaccinated, meaning they’ve missed out entirely or partially on routine immunization. Those are levels we’ve not seen since 2008."
- "“We normally vaccinate between 200 to 300 people per day. There are so many children coming here who are zero-dose,” says Nelson, referring to children who have not received their first diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine (DTP1)."