Finding & Naming SARS-CoV-2

Visualization of the coronavirus causing COVID-19

The articles on this page are focused on (or include content related to) the “finding” and naming of SARS-CoV-2. These were not conceived as a series but arose in part from discussions among associates. Displayed in the order written. Page accessible from navigation bar.

Jonathan’s Substack

SARS-CoV-2: what's in a name? Everything.

“Naming is everything” might be a trite observation, but that doesn’t make it any less true…

a year ago · 34 likes · 24 comments · Jonathan Engler

Where are the numbers? by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil

Virus Origins and Gain (Claim) of Function research

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” – Richard P. Feynman…

a year ago · 136 likes · 117 comments · Martin Neil and Jonathan Engler

UPDATE: July 8, 2024 Email to the WHO Regarding Its Statement About the Naming of SARS-CoV-2

Last week, I wrote about a claim on the WHO website regarding when and by whom the virus initially called 2019-nCoV was (re)named SARS-CoV-2. A WHO spokesperson responded to my inquiry. Amid further correspondence with that individual, the ICTV data secretary, and a ICTV Coronavirus Study Group member, I found additional documentation and re-read records…

a year ago · 23 likes · 1 comment · Jessica Hockett

The SARS-CoV-2 Name Game (Long Read)

More than four years after reports about a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, the origin of “the virus” alleged to be the culprit remains debated and unresolved. Less mysterious and easier to chronicle is the origin of the virus’s official name…

a year ago · 32 likes · 11 comments · Jessica Hockett

Timeline: The "Finding" & Naming of SARS-CoV-2 and Creation of COVID-19 (U07.1)

This is a republication of a timeline that is being continuously updated. (Previous version now unpublished. Old links will be fixed when found…

3 months ago · Jessica Hockett

COVID-19 Did Not Come From a Lab

An honest, objective reading of records and timeline makes clear that COVID-19 (aka, covid) did not come from a lab. Continuing to say it did enables the perpetrators who staged a global pandemic…

9 months ago · 90 likes · 13 comments · Jessica Hockett

Did the Corman-Drosten Protocol “rely on social media reports” to seek (& then find) SARS-CoV-2?

Amidst so many problematic things about the Corman-Drosten protocol — the PCR testing assay used to launch a pandemic — and the circumstances around its emergence, it’s easy to miss a curious and tro…

6 months ago · 65 likes · 15 comments · Jessica Hockett and Jonathan Engler

Is there any possible way for SARS-CoV-2 and/or "COVID-19" to have a "lab origin"?

Last update: 2 August 2025…

3 months ago · 51 likes · 13 comments · Jessica Hockett

Does a SARS virus automatically trigger a WHO Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?

Revisiting an article I wrote last year on the naming of SARS-CoV-2 reminded me of a claim by Christian Drosten that warrants a “fact check…

15 days ago · 16 likes

Sanity Unleashed

Filling in the gaps: The connection between photographic upscaling, genetic sequencing, and the “finding” of SARS-CoV-2

Whilst perusing X, Jonathan was struck by a post promoting a restored 4K version of the Zapruder film of the assasination of JFK…

2 days ago · 64 likes · 34 comments · Jonathan Engler, Jessica Hockett, and Martin Neil

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