Just like we have HIV (a virus) and AIDS (the disease caused by HIV), we have SARS-CoV-2 (virus) and the disease (COVID-19). In Computer Science there’s an old joke that there are only two hard things, and naming things is one of them.
The presence of the “19” in the naming scheme isn’t a mistake. It’s there for a very chilling reason: this is not the last Coronavirus we are going to face. SARS and MERS are both caused by Coronaviruses as are a bunch of different Coronaviruses that c
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