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

[Larry Davidson]

The (novel) coronavirus is the virus, covid-19 is the disease caused by the
virus.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:36 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> I guess that's why this one is sometimes specified as a (or the) "novel
> coronavirus", not to be confused with the (great) coronavirus novel, still
> to be written.  But I suppose "Covid-19" is even more specific, at least
> for this century.
>
> LH
>
> 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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