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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
But still, why not just call it Covid or C19 or whatever? Do we NEED to call it Wuhan virus or anything else when a perfectly acceptable name exists now?
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You can't expect most people to use terms they don't understand. How many people even know Covid-19 = Coronavirus Disease 2019?. They think the disease and the virus are one and the same. The virus is actually called SARS-CoV-2. Similar to HIV = virus, AIDS = disease.
The people who show no symptoms carry the SARS-CoV-2 virus but don't have Covid-19. When they named the disease weeks ago, the news did try to inform people of the differences but gave up and just started calling everything Covid-19.