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The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled new names for the novel coronavirus variants. The new names were dreamed up in order to replace the ones which are linked to where the variants were discovered. And why shouldn’t variants be named for where they are discovered? prejudice, obviously.
Liberals went crazy, accusing former President Trump of vicious racism and bigotry when referring to COVID-19 as the Wuhan Virus. As variants of the coronavirus strain are popping up around the world, the WHO is changing its naming tactics.
Despite diseases having been historically and frequently “named after the locations they were thought to have developed, such as the Ebola virus…such associations can be damaging for those places and are often inaccurate, as is the case with the ‘Spanish flu’ of 1918, whose origins are unknown” reports The Guardian.
However, in the new day and age, Trump is being blamed for a rise in attacks on Asian-Americans for referring to COVID-19 as the “China virus” and the Indian government has “ordered social media platforms to take down content that referred to the ‘Indian variant.”
The WHO has named four variants of concern, known to the public as the UK/Kent (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), Brazil (P.1) and India (B.1.617.2) variants. They will now be given the letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta respectively, to reflect their order of detection, with any new variants following the pattern down the Greek alphabet.
The decision to go for this naming system came after months of deliberations with experts considering a range of other possibilities such as Greek Gods, according to bacteriologist Mark Pallen who was involved in the talks.
The organization said the labels do not replace existing scientific names involving numbers, Roman letters and full stops, which convey important scientific information and will continue to be used in research.
The WHO said: “While they have their advantages, these scientific names can be difficult to say and recall and are prone to misreporting … As a result, people often resort to calling variants by the places where they are detected, which is stigmatizing and discriminatory.
“To avoid this and to simplify public communications, [the] WHO encourages national authorities, media outlets and others to adopt these new labels.”
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled new names for the novel coronavirus variants. The new names were dreamed up in order to replace the ones which are linked to where the variants were discovered. And why shouldn’t variants be named for where they are discovered? prejudice, obviously.
Liberals went crazy, accusing former President Trump of vicious racism and bigotry when referring to COVID-19 as the Wuhan Virus. As variants of the coronavirus strain are popping up around the world, the WHO is changing its naming tactics.
Despite diseases having been historically and frequently “named after the locations they were thought to have developed, such as the Ebola virus…such associations can be damaging for those places and are often inaccurate, as is the case with the ‘Spanish flu’ of 1918, whose origins are unknown” reports The Guardian.
However, in the new day and age, Trump is being blamed for a rise in attacks on Asian-Americans for referring to COVID-19 as the “China virus” and the Indian government has “ordered social media platforms to take down content that referred to the ‘Indian variant.”
The WHO has named four variants of concern, known to the public as the UK/Kent (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), Brazil (P.1) and India (B.1.617.2) variants. They will now be given the letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta respectively, to reflect their order of detection, with any new variants following the pattern down the Greek alphabet.
The decision to go for this naming system came after months of deliberations with experts considering a range of other possibilities such as Greek Gods, according to bacteriologist Mark Pallen who was involved in the talks.
The organization said the labels do not replace existing scientific names involving numbers, Roman letters and full stops, which convey important scientific information and will continue to be used in research.
The WHO said: “While they have their advantages, these scientific names can be difficult to say and recall and are prone to misreporting … As a result, people often resort to calling variants by the places where they are detected, which is stigmatizing and discriminatory.
“To avoid this and to simplify public communications, [the] WHO encourages national authorities, media outlets and others to adopt these new labels.”