FYI, The WHO "best practices for naming new human infectious diseases" (2015) are the reason why COVID-19 has that name, not any Geographically-linked name. Tim

FYI, The WHO "best practices for naming new human infectious diseases" (2015) are the reason why COVID-19 has that name, not any Geographically-linked name. Times have moved on since the "Spanish" flu. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_HSE_FOS_15.1_eng.pdf https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_... https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-practices-for-naming-new-human-infectious-diseases https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-pra...