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Re: Corona Virus. -
April 6th 2020, 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Serendipity.
I've seen on Wikipedia that coronavirus is a generic label of the virus famly, and COVID-19 is the specific strain of a coronavirus. The 19 is the year it was discovered. We just got in the habit of referring to it as coronavirus, when it's a generic term.
Source.
I will admit that I prefer using the incorrect generic term than to use something derogatory and xenophobic.
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Coronaviruses do cause a range of other diseases, but this particular type (a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2) is what causes COVID-19 (which is the name of the disease - coronavirus disease 2019). I think by this point just calling it "coronavirus" is sufficient (in the vernacular at least), since it's the one everyone's talking about.
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