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While COVID-19 refers to the disease and SARS-CoV-2 refers to the virus which causes it, referring to the "COVID-19 virus" has been accepted. [9] [25] [29] Reference to SARS-CoV-2 as "the coronavirus" has become somewhat accepted despite such use implying that there is only one coronavirus species. Similarly, use of "COVID" for the disease (if ...
A COVID-19 vaccine is intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 . Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, an established body of knowledge existed about the structure and function of coronaviruses causing diseases like severe acute ...
The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 17 November 2019. [2]
Feb. 11: WHO announced the official name for the disease as “COVID-19,” an abbreviated version of “Coronavirus Disease 2019.” Feb. 13: CDC confirmed the 15th case of COVID-19 in the U.S.
Public health experts approved of the name — COVID-19 — and say that there has been a "long history" of creating stigma by naming diseases in reference to particular groups of people or ...
[27] [28] In January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended "2019 novel coronavirus" (2019-nCoV) [5] [29] as the provisional name for the virus. This was in accordance with WHO's 2015 guidance [ 30 ] against using geographical locations, animal species, or groups of people in disease and virus names.
In the opinion of the eight virologists these viruses are members of a previously unrecognized group which they suggest should be called the coronaviruses, to recall the characteristic appearance by which these viruses are identified in the electron microscope. [56] Coronavirus was accepted as a genus name by ICNV in its first report in 1971. [57]
[7] [10] This morphology is created by the viral spike peplomers, which are proteins on the surface of the virus. [11] The scientific name Coronavirus was accepted as a genus name by the International Committee for the Nomenclature of Viruses (later renamed International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses) in 1971. [12]