Corona virus?
COVID-19?
SARS-CoV-2?
2019-nCoV?
Allow me to set it straight for you.
Coronaviruses
are a group of viruses which can cause respiratory tract infections. These are typically mild, such as the common cold, but are also responsible for SARS, MERS, etc. The Coronaviruses include:SARS-CoV-2
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is one specific strain of Coronavirus. An early provisional name for this strain was 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV or nCoV-2019). The "2" in its current name is because there was an earlier strain, SARS-CoV-1 (originally called simply SARS-CoV), responsible for the SARS disease. SARS-CoV-2 is the strain of Coronavirus responsible for:COVID-19
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus strain.The Pandemic
The outbreak of COVID-19 occurred in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and the disease quickly went epidemic. It was declared a pandemic at the end of January 2020. It is inevitable that SARS-CoV-2 will be endemic.
