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

[Chris Waigl]

There have been at least one previous pandemic caused by a coronavirus, and
for the second phrase you'll get hits just in lists of viruses that can
cause pandemics rather than for the collocation.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:14 AM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>

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