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Its actually been novel coronavirus, since day one.
by justinzollars 7y ago
Its actually been novel coronavirus, since day one.
- egdod 7y agoPeople have been calling it coronavirus since day one.
- Fomite 7y agoNot the epidemiologists, because "coronavirus" is way too vague.
- egdod 7y agoPeople. Not every person. Not epidemiologists specifically, obviously. But the name has now stuck.
- Fomite 7y agoYeah, but the WHO isn't naming things for "people". Any more than the fact that "people" call things stomach flu when they're not at all influenza related changes that things are called "norovirus" and "rotavirus".
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- spanxx 7y agoPeople without any knowledge of the topic, you mean.
- marshray 7y agoWhich is not any less ambiguous.
- hkmurakami 7y agonCOV-2019 seems okay. References to SARS in Hong Kong news were often accompanied with references with 2003, the year of the outbreak.
- gruez 7y agogreat, now what happens if another coronavirus epidemic hits? do you still call it "novel coronavirus", because it's novel? do whoever's in charge of naming get their act together and allocate a number in hours rather than weeks?
- rorykoehler 7y agoNovel novel coronavirus. The next one after will be novel novel novel coronavirus. Reminds me of some people I've worked with who insist on long email threads with attached words docs as their "project management" methodology.
- jobigoud 7y agoWhen the string of Re:Re:Re:Fwd:Re:Re: reach the line width of your email client you start a new thread.