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54813 Re: Fox News and COVID-19
   I hate it when someone who doesn't know what he's talking about preten...
capt_nemo   POPE 5   09 Mar 2020
8:45 PM
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ribit   POPE 5   09 Mar 2020
7:19 PM

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Fox News and COVID-19

By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Mon, 09 Mar 20 6:19 PM
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Fox News just gave a talk about Covid-19 and - I don't know why I'm surprised - they got it completely wrong.

They just said that there are many variants of coronavirus and scientists gave the current one the name Covid-19 because it originated in 2019. They then compared it to other well known coronaviruses, MERS and SARS.

Wrong! The "RS" in both MERS and SARS stands for "Respiratory Syndrome." Would anybody give a virus a name ending in "Respiratory Syndrome"? No. MERS and SARS and Covid-19 are all DISEASES. The viruses behind those diseases have their own names. In the case of the current coronavirus, the name is SARS-CoV-2. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. I hate it when someone who doesn't know what he's talking about pretends to be an expert.




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