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xenonite on March 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

The virus is called "SARS-Cov2", the disease is called "COVID-19".

anticensor on March 11, 2020 [–]

The disease should be called SARS type 2, because the virus is called SARS-CoV-2.

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