Did the International Committee on Virus Taxonomy (ICTV) Announce the Name SARS-CoV-2 on February 11, 2020, as Claimed by the WHO?

No, they did not. [UPDATE: WHO says they did.]

If you’ve ever looked at the WHO page Naming the coronavirus disease and the virus that causes it, then you seen the semantic gymnastics around the question “Why do the virus and the disease have different names?”

I read this page again yesterday while going through a batch of emails I obtained last month that are connected to how 2019-ncov was renamed S…