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		ourmandave on Feb 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coronavirus outbreak likely now ‘gathering steam’ It's to help coordinate a cure and containment if everyone (e.g. researchers, doctors, public officials, reporters.) knows it by one official name. Also COVID-19 is neutral, so it doesn't generate negative bias like the Spanish Flu. (Which didn't originate in Spain.)

spanxx on Feb 12, 2020 | [–]

In fact, the only relationship that virus had with Spain is that the press was not censored as in the other European countries of that time (because of their involvement in the Great War).

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