PHEIC

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /feɪk/
  • Homophone: fake

Noun

PHEIC (plural PHEICs)

  1. (healthcare, medicine) Acronym of public health emergency of international concern.
    • 2020 April 10, Stephen Buranyi, “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic”, in The Guardian‎:
      In 2005, the WHO drew up a new version of the International Health Regulations (IHR), the central legal document that all member states are bound by. […] It also allows the WHO to declare a public health emergency of international concern (or PHEIC, pronounced, incredibly, “fake”), using its own information, over the objection of any single country.

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