I completely agree with this - should we call the virus behind #COVID19 "hCoV-19" instead of "SARS-CoV-2"? A group of Chinese scientists lays out the reasons why.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30419-0/fulltext …
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Semantic consistency with
#COVID19 is a strong argument. In any event, regilar expressions are a lifesaver given inconsistent capitalizations and hyphenation.
My main beef is that nobody from mainland China or anybody actually involved in the discovery/response to this virus was involved in the SARS-CoV-2 naming (AFAIK). And given the stigma associated with 'SARS', I kinda feel that's the least ICTV could have done.
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I’d like to see the virus and disease have the same identifier. Messaging is more complicated when the virus and the disease it causes have different, not intuitively linked names (eg, HIV/AIDS)
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I don't think the ‘H’ in ‘HCoV-19’ adds anything, and may confuse. Calling the virus ‘2019-CoV’ or ‘CoV-2019’ from the start might have been nice. I'd guess that ‘SARS-CoV-2’ is here to stay.https://twitter.com/fakeDespommier/status/1227760246166298626 …
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