<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:29 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Just a quick FYI: it's "COVID" (coronavirus disease) not corvid--no crows involved.</blockquote><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yeah, but</span> on Google you'll find it spelled both ways, <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">however</span> its name is mutating much faster than the virus itself is. First it was "Wuhan virus" then it was "novel coronavirus-2019" <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">then it was Covid-19" </span>and now we're told its <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">new</span>official name is "SARS-CoV-2", but that's not very catchy so I don't think its new name is going to stick.</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></span></div></div></div>