# COVID-19
## Naming
The disease and associated virus were publicly named on 2020-02-11.[^1]
**Disease:** coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
**Virus:** severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
However, the [[World Health Organization]] has begun calling the virus as “the virus responsible for COVID-19” or “the COVID-19 virus” publicly. This is due to risk communications, as SARS has risk of creating a population-based fear due to the 2003 SARS outbreak.[^2] Neither phrases replace the official virus name.
*See also: [[Naming diseases]], [[Naming viruses]]*
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# # Variants
- #followup This paper on proposed viral lineage naming is fascinating. Speficially relevant “Principles of a dynamic nomenclature system” and “Lineage naming rules”
- [[rambaut2020DynamicNomenclatureProposal|Rambaut, et al (2020). A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology.]]
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# # Quick links
- [World Health Organization dashboard](https://covid19.who.int)
- [Canada.ca hub page](https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html)
- [Ontario.ca hub page](https://covid-19.ontario.ca)
- [Ontario consolidated data (Google Sheet)](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E28C0ylUQ0hHgFySFpXtdjX_LkdY5tlhl-nt0SGhCDg/edit#gid=55142146)
- [worldometer COVID-19 data](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/)
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[^1]: [World Health Organization - Naming the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the virus that causes it](https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it)
[^2]: [World Health Organization - Naming the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the virus that causes it](https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it)