From Coronavirus to Covid...why??

[Lilifer]

Why has this section's name been changed from Coronavirus to Covid?🧐

I've been wondering this.

Not really noticed, till now lol

Oh yes! Weird that
Maybe it's so the newer variants are now included too ?

Yeah, I find it odd too. It's weird, but Coronavirus sounds more serious and genuine, and Covid sounds somewhat mindless and deride for some reason.

"Covid" is the illness caused by any variant of SARS-CoV-2.

"Coronavirus" isn't really specific enough; there are lots of coronaviruses, not just the one causing this pandemic.

It reflects how people talk about it in common parlance. When the pandemic started, people called it “Coronavirus” but over time people referred to it as “Covid-19” and eventually “Covid” stuck as the most common way of referring to it. Such is the way language evolves. ‘Rona autocorrected on my iphone the other day despite not having typed it before to my knowledge

There are hundreds of coronaviruses. This once is specifically called covid.

I don’t know anyone who calls it or refers to it as coronavirus anymore. Always covid. Occasionally ‘Rona.

Its a coronavirus called covid 19. Shortened even further to covid

Why does it matter? It’s obviously the same subject.

I noticed that this morning.
Does Boris Johnson still say "cronavahrs" he used to do my head in back in the early days. Much as "Rona" does now.

@Faircastle

"Covid" is the illness caused by any variant of SARS-CoV-2.

"Coronavirus" isn't really specific enough; there are lots of coronaviruses, not just the one causing this pandemic.

This I would have called it Covid 19 initially.

I think it's too matey.
Covid-19 I could cope with....

Better than 'the rona' 🙄🙄🙄 Covid is more specific and shorter

Covid-19 is the disease. SARSCoV-2 is the virus, a type of coronavirus.

Still says Coronavirus on the app.

@saltandpepper234 My phone always tries to type covid in all caps and I have to tell it to shush and rewrite it in lower case every time! That'll learn ya, covid!

I read that covid was an abbreviation of CO-rona VI-rus D-isease then add 19 for the year first identified
Coronavirus is the type of organism that causes the illness Covid-19

Says covid for me on app

Natural reduction of a regularly used long word obvs.

@TalkToTheHand123

Natural reduction of a regularly used long word obvs.

Not really natural when the board had been coronavirus for years. Why change it now @MNHQ

It's probably about search engines and algorithms. If Covid is a more common or more searched term then you'll get better traffic to the website by using it.

@Inastatus

Why does it matter? It’s obviously the same subject.

I'm just wondering why it's changed now when it's been coronavirus from the start of all this. Seems a bit pointless to change it at this late stage of the day

@WiseUpJanetWeiss

Covid-19 is the disease. SARSCoV-2 is the virus, a type of coronavirus.

Still says Coronavirus on the app.

It says covid in the app version on my phone

@OvaHere has the answer I guess!

I haven't heard Covid being called coronavirus since 2020.

oh i dont like it,,
it is harder to differentiate