COVID-19, coronavirus' new name, avoids 'stigmatizing' Wuhan, China

The disease that has killed more than 1,000 people in China, stopped flights and disrupted trade now has a name — "COVID-19," a moniker that combines "coronavirus," "disease" and the year it was discovered while averting the ignominy of tying the disease to an entire place or people, like the ...

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