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

[Barretts Mail]

So should the pandemic be the “COVID-19 pandemic" or the "coronavirus pandemic”?

The former gets 84 million raw Googits and the latter 190 million. 

Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 16 Mar 2020, at 10:12, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> It's already being used non-technically as an exact synonym for "COVID-19."
> 
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> 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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