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It's the standard placeholder name when they're not sure what it is yet.


Since 2018. In an effort to cause WHO projects to focus their research on broader themes rather than individual strains. I'm not precisely sure how you meant this to be any sort of counterpoint, and this looks _even more_ like terrible public health consciousness to me.


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Okay, so what's wrong with slapping a number on a strain name? COVID-19 (COrona VIrus Disease 2019)


Nothing, but they don't know the strain yet.

BTW, COVID-19 is the name of the disease, Coronavirus Disease 2019. The virus is SARS-Cov-2 (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus).


Only works if you isolate the strain.

Once they discover what the causative agent is for disease X, they will name it something that someone will call racist eventually and we'll be able to reference it directly.




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