[Ads-l] origin of the term "coronavirus"

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's already being used non-technically as an exact synonym for "COVID-19."



 JL

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:52 PM James Landau <
00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1306801/ accessed March 16,
> 2020 "The name “coronavirus,” coined in 1968, is derived from the
> “corona”-like or crown-like morphology observed for these viruses in the
> electron microscope (318). In 1975, the Coronaviridae family was
> established by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses.
>  footnote 318 reads "318. Tyrrel, D. A. J., J. D. Almedia, D. M. Berry, C.
> H. Cunningham, D. Hamre, M. S. Hofstad, L. Malluci, and K. McIntosh. 1968.
> Coronavirus. Nature 220:650."  James Landau
> jjjrlandau at netscape.com
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