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: Received: 14 March 2020 / Approved: 16 March 2020 / Online: 16 March 2020 (15:12:33 CET)
How to cite:
Hu, Z.; Yang, Z.; Li, Q.; Huang, Y. Nomenclature: Coronavirus and the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Preprints2020, 2020020380. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0380.v1
Hu, Z.; Yang, Z.; Li, Q.; Huang, Y. Nomenclature: Coronavirus and the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Preprints 2020, 2020020380. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0380.v1
Hu, Z.; Yang, Z.; Li, Q.; Huang, Y. Nomenclature: Coronavirus and the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Preprints2020, 2020020380. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0380.v1
APA Style
Hu, Z., Yang, Z., Li, Q., & Huang, Y. (2020). Nomenclature: Coronavirus and the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0380.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Hu, Z., Qi Li and Yongfeng Huang. 2020 "Nomenclature: Coronavirus and the 2019 Novel Coronavirus" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0380.v1
Abstract
Less aligned emphasis has been given to naming the 2019 novel coronavirus and pandemic disease. Global profusion of squab names has found their ways in daily communication, and our survey promises to articulate that many of them may have contributed to backlash against Chinese people. Here, based on brief critical reviews on the naming of coronavirus and human coronaviruses, we scrutinize a clear sense of pros and cons of previous multifarious names and punctuate heuristic introspection of naming practices. Our findings suggest that full-fledged official names are duly contribute to the resilience of healthy collective usages in current infodemic scenario.
Keywords
human coronaviruses (HCoVs); infodemic; PHEIC; 2019-nCoV; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2
Subject
Social Sciences, Sociology
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.
Comment: [Update] In academic-industrial sphere, the arguments of naming the 2019 novel coronavirus and pathogenic disease flew to and fro, and nothing seemed certain or obviously right. In real dilemma, layered on top of this, making informed and judicious choice is a catch-22 for each authoritative body.
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Commenter:
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.
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