Term:Dose

Related terms

• a dose of coronavirus vaccine
• a third or fourth dose is called a booster shot

Normative

Examples

Persons who have received the second dose in a 2-dose COVID-19 vaccine series, including where two doses of different COVID-19 vaccines have been administered according to national vaccination strategies, and persons who have received a single dose vaccine should be considered as fully vaccinated.

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32021H0961

Collocations

• receive a dose
• approved dose
• standard dose

Keyness

335

Note

A significant portion of examples in the corpus refer to "dose" in general, not specifically "vaccine dose" which was considered for this entry.

Research

Variants and synonyms

• vaccine dose
• first/second/third dose

Definition/description

Standard schedule of vaccination is three doses at 0, 1 and 6 months.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978032303453110063X?via%3Dihubhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978032303453110063X?via%3Dihub

Collocations

• single dose
• first dose
• second dose
• third dose
• receive dose
• administer dose

Keyness

• dose: >1000
• vaccine dose: >1000
• first/second/third dose: >1000

Note

“Dose” understood as “dose of a vaccine” occurred extremely rarely in the corpus, whereas “dose of a drug” (or generic medical/research meaning) was the primary context in which “dose” occurred.

Press

Variants and synonyms

• jab
• shot

Examples

Nearly six in ten adults in the UK have now received at least one dose.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9423131/There-no-negotiation-EU-stokes-vaccine-war-warning-zero-jabs-exported-UK.html

Collocations

• first dose
• second dose
• third dose
• booster dose
• vaccine dose
• to receive a dose
• to get a dose
• to have a dose
• to administer a dose
• to offer a dose

Keyness

• dose: 66
• jab: 2
• shot: 890

Comments

Variants and synonym

• first dose
• second dose
• third dose
• fourth dose

Examples

They said before that 6 months after the 2nd dose was the ideal to boost the immune response but that is all thrown by the wayside in a whim.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

I'm hoping that for those of us that want them, we can get a booster 6 months after the 2nd dose.

Source: unknown

Collocations

• to receive a dose

Keyness

third dose: 621

dose: >1000