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Old 05-07-2020, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Two Bills View Post
All flu is a virus.
This virus is a flu.
Back in the day all flu pandemics were named after where the source alegedly started.
This virus would have been named Wuhan Flu, or wherever they eventually decide it started, but skin being so thin all over the world these days, they give it a fancy name so no one gets to upset
It's still a flu!
Technically no. "Flu" is short for influenza, one type of virus. COVID-19 is a coronavirus, a different class of virus. Some are more virulent than others----some "common colds" are caused by coronaviruses, at the other end of the spectrum, MERS, with up to a 30% mortality rate is also a coronavirus. So they were never going to name it "the Wuhan flu".