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I was happy to see WHO has coronavirus.com. Edit: Ha, not even owned by them.
by ErikAugust 7y ago
I was happy to see WHO has coronavirus.com.
Edit: Ha, not even owned by them.
- rgovostes 7y agoI don't think they own it. Whoever does own it currently has it set to redirect, but it may not always do so.
- ck2 7y agonot WHO owned, registered 2002, wow that's some foresight now they are getting search rank by getting people to link to it and later they can redirect it or put whatever content they want on it
- gorydetails 7y agoNot really. COVID-19 is not the first major coronavirus. SARS and MERS come to mind. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/coronaviruses https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/coronaviruses
- asveikau 7y agoOutside of those two (now 3), I thought also there were a bunch of relatively harmless coronaviruses that people just consider comparable to common cold. Wikipedia says: Coronaviruses were discovered in the 1960s.[8] The earliest ones discovered were infectious bronchitis virus in chickens and two viruses from the nasal cavities of human patients with the common cold that were subsequently named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Discovery And later: Coronaviruses are believed to cause a significant proportion of all common colds in adults and children. The coronaviruses HCoV-229E, -NL63, -OC43, and -HKU1 continually circulate in the human population and cause respiratory infections in adults and children world-wide.