They were worried calling it SARS 2 would give people a false sense of security over how SARS 1 fizzled out on its own I think this was a mistakehttps://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1383261232715558916 …
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I *think* it was the other way. WHO in Feb 2020 said "From a risk communications perspective, the name SARS can have unintended consequences in terms of creating unnecessary fear for some populations ... worst affected by the SARS ... 2003"https://web.archive.org/web/20200221072700/https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it …
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