We have been offered COVID-19 as the name for this particular coronavirus but there seems to be some reluctance to use it.
Read MoreWhen the novel coronavirus first appeared we waited for it to be given a name. In medical jargon novel means ‘new in the sense of previously undescribed’, but the time would come when this virus was no longer new. We needed the equivalent of SARS as an identifier of this particular strain of coronavirus.
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