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Why Do Virus Variants Have Such Weird Names?

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021Apoorva Mandavilli and Benjamin MuellerComments Off on Why Do Virus Variants Have Such Weird Names?
B.1.351 may sound sweet to a molecular epidemiologist, but what’s the alternative, other than stigmatizing geographical names?
Tagged Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Discrimination, Microbiology, Names, Geographical, World Health Organization, your-feed-science
Apoorva Mandavilli and Benjamin Mueller
https://www.nytimes.com/section/world

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