Coronavirus? Corona flu (Trump's term)? Novel Coronavirus? What do you call this thing?

[Dennis Donovan]

so I looked it up on Wikipedia. The correct term is SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), previously known by the provisional name 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, an epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that has been designated a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO).

SARS-CoV-2 has close genetic similarity to bat coronaviruses, from which it likely originated. An intermediate reservoir such as a pangolin is also thought to be involved in its introduction to humans.[From a taxonomic perspective SARS-CoV-2 is classified as a strain of the species severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV). To avoid confusion with the disease SARS, the WHO sometimes refers to the virus as "the virus responsible for COVID-19" in public health communications.

On edit: the more *I* know!

[Pachamama]

1. I call it COVID-19

Actually, the best description I have heard is that the virus is SARS-CoV-2 and it causes COVID-19

Similar to HIV virus causes AIDS

[Dennis Donovan]

4. I read that too, wasn't sure so I looked it up.

Not to mention twitter hashtags are all over the place on it so it makes it hard to gather meaningful info via twitter.

[unblock]

2. sars-cov-2 and covid-19 are both correct, for different concepts

sars-cov-2 is the virus itself.

covid-19 is the current outbreak of the disease caused by the virus sars-cov-2.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. From Medicare:

(officially called "2019-Novel Coronavirus" or "COVID-19&quot

I'll go with that.

[Cousin Dupree]

5. I hope to some day call it "Donny's Downfall"!

[Dennis Donovan]

9. It already is

...only a matter of time before the bunker scene plays out.

[hlthe2b]

6. No. COVID-19 is the name for DISEASE caused by the novel Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2

I posted on this a few days back due to similar confusion. I'll try to find it.

Here:

The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has a name: Covid-19.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, announced the name Tuesday, giving a specific identifier to a disease that has been confirmed in more than 42,000 people and caused more than 1,000 deaths in China. There have been fewer than 400 cases in 24 other countries, with one death.

In choosing the name, WHO advisers focused simply on the type of virus that causes the disease. Co and Vi come from coronavirus, Tedros explained, with D meaning disease and 19 standing for 2019, the year the first cases were seen.

The virus that causes the disease has been known provisionally as 2019-nCoV. Also on Tuesday, a coronavirus group from the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, which is responsible for naming new viruses, proposed designating the novel coronavirus as SARS-CoV-2, according to a preprint of a paper posted online. (Preprints are versions of papers that have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal.) The name reflects the genetic similarities between the new coronavirus and the coronavirus that caused the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/11/disease-caused-by-the-novel-coronavirus-has-name-covid-19/

[Dennis Donovan]

10. Fixed.

[dewsgirl]

7. I call it Coronavirus, I can't get used to Covid 19 I have tried.

[herding cats]

8. Think of it like HIV and AIDS.

SARS-CoV-2 Is the name of the virus and COVID-19 the name of the disease it causes.

[Raftergirl]

11. I just abbreviate

and say CV.

When I wrote it on another board someone asked what Curriculum Vitae had to do with the virus. Fortunately, I knew they were joking.

[bigbrother05]

12. Covfefe-19?

At least that's what Mrs. BB05 calls it and she's never wrong.

[Johnny2X2X]

13. It's not a flu

Trump calling it Corona Flu is inaccurate and an attempt to minimize it.

[Dennis Donovan]

14. Of course

[bamagal62]

15. I call it SARS-2

[marybourg]

16. You know what they would call it

if Obama were still president.

[Claritie Pixie]

17. Watch this, watch all daily updates!

Just the medical facts.