Hi Dan and all,


COVID-19 is more precise, at least for now. Corona virus is too generic as 
you mentioned. Any treatments or potential vaccine needs to focus on the 
characteristics and behaviours of this particular member of the coronavirus 
family. Capitals are better as it's an acronym like SARS and MERS. It's not 
the first and last virus that will emerge from the interaction
between different species in nature.

I feel sorry for the CDC.

Alan


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Names matter.

Coronavirus
Novel coronavirus
Covid
COVID
Covid-19
COVID-19

Those are the ways I’ve read “it” referred to? Are there different 
connotations, meanings, semantic situations expressed or implied in these 
words?

I’ve used “Covid.”

“Coronavirus” seems too generic.  The common cold and seasonal flue are 
coronaviruses.  So why not add “-19”? That specifies it. But it makes it 
more scientific.

"Covid” is short and sounds like a dagger to me. It is sharp and vicious. 
That name, to me, carries with it the global disaster that extends beyond 
the disease per se.

Yet it looks like “coronavirus” is more and more the name.  I just hope it 
isn’t medicalizing our suffering that goes beyond medicine.

Dan
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