A trivial matter.

bazermc

Is it Coronavirus or the Coronavirus?????

Outlaw Pete

It's a coronavirus.

Deeper Blue

It's a type of coronavirus, as were SARS and MERS if I'm not mistaken

CelticRambler

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

It's a coronavirus.

Yep. The common cold is also caused by a coronavirus. Which is why any reference to the current epidemic should use the term SARS-CoV-2, or Covid-19 for short. :cool:

Snow Garden

There have been several coronaviruses. Coronaviruses were first discovered in the 1930s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus

storker

NDWC wrote: »

It's a type of coronavirus, as were SARS and MERS if I'm not mistaken

Type 2019.

Or a/the Corona virus?

Cee-Jay-Cee

You would think with the near full time coverage on tv, radio, social media, forums, shop posters/displays etc etc that everyone should be able to spell the word ‘COVID’

I work in a public service job and am regarded as essential. Practically every single email and piece of correspondence we have received in the last 2 or 3 weeks is relating to Covid 19.

So far today I have counted 5 different spellings from various people within the organisation, ranking from entry level to upper management.

Covit
Covitt
Covet (May have been auto -corrected)
Corvit
Corvid

How anyone could spell it incorrectly is beyond me.

Pseudonym121

Coronaviruses are a family of viruses with specific characteristics.

This virus is part of that Coronavirus family. This virus’ name is SARS-CoV2 and the disease it causes is COVID-19.

That’s it in a nutshell.

L1011

Corvid is an actual word hence lots of autocorrect horrors

YouSavedMyLife

Should be called the CCP Virus, reflects more on what it actually is and how it came about

Cee-Jay-Cee

L1011 wrote: »

Corvid is an actual word hence lots of autocorrect horrors

You would think but all of them with the exception of Covet were in the title which doesn’t autocorrect on our outlook programme so they were spelt incorrectly

CelticRambler

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Should be called the CCP Virus, reflects more on what it actually is and how it came about

CCP? Compte Courant Postal - you mean it's all a conspiracy by my French bank? Or are you referring to the American Concealed Carry Permit?

How about we stick to calling it what it is - a coronavirus - and accept that this one is just yet a natural variation of a microbe that's been around in many forms for a lot longer than any of today's conspiracy theorists. :P

TheValeyard

I think we should just refer to it as 'that prick'

Padraig Mor

CelticRambler wrote: »

Yep. The common cold is also caused by a coronavirus. Which is why any reference to the current epidemic should use the term SARS-CoV-2, or Covid-19 for short. :cool:

Technically it's just SARS-CoV-2 - there is no short version. Covid-19 refers to the disease caused by the virus. /pedant.

CelticRambler

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Technically it's just SARS-CoV-2 - there is no short version. Covid-19 refers to the disease caused by the virus. /pedant.

Point taken. Perhaps the OP would like to confirm whether he wishes to refer to the virus or the disease it causes!

It really should be consistently referred to as SARS-CoV-2 to distinguish from other coronavirus outbreaks, which there could be more of in the future.