Who Comes Up with These Names?
What Makes The Covid-19 Coronavirus A “Novel” Virus? Why Is It Called Covid-19?
“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.” — Karl Augustus Menningerkj
Let’s break this into understandable pieces.
The Covid-19 coronavirus is a new virus infecting humans.
The virus is a novel virus because it is new (novel) to humans. The coronavirus leaped from animals to humans. The suspected path is bat>pangolin>human. The virus existed in bats, jumped to pangolins, then to humans. Humans have no natural immunity to the virus since our immune systems never saw it during our development.
It is named the coronavirus because of its appearance. The virus has a spike of crowns or a corona.
Covid-19 is the name given to the disease this coronavirus causes. The symptoms are respiratory distress, sneezing, and tiredness.
Normally the viruses that leap from animals to humans attack the young and the old. The young are vulnerable because their immune systems…
