Early 2020/Staged Pandemic (Non NYC/Non Flu)

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

Jul 08, 2024

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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.

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

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…

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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…

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

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