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People have been calling it coronavirus since day one.

• Fomite 7y ago
  Not the epidemiologists, because "coronavirus" is way too vague.
  • egdod 7y ago
    People. Not every person. Not epidemiologists specifically, obviously. But the name has now stuck.
    • Fomite 7y ago
      Yeah, 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 ago
  People without any knowledge of the topic, you mean.