Co Vid 19, Coronavirus, Sarscov2, Health, Epidemiology.
Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses reported on March 2, 2020 that the virus causing COVID-19 is so genetically similar to the first Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV, the one behind the SARS outbreak in 2003) that it warranted simply tacking on a “-2” to the name. Importantly,