Here's why experts say not to name viruses after locations
and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar—have said it is inappropriate and inaccurate to call the coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” with Azar saying during a February 27 hearing, “Ethnicity is not what causes the novel coronavirus.”
Adding to the criticism of Trump, Dr. Mike Ryan, the executive director of WHO’s emergencies program, on Wednesday, “It's really important we be careful in the language we use lest it lead to the profiling of individuals associated with the virus.”in 2015 that advise against naming infectious diseases after geographic locations because doing so could cause “unintended negative impacts by stigmatizing certain communities.”
In defending the president’s comments, the White House tweeted, “Spanish Flu. West Nile Virus. Zika. Ebola. All named for places....Those trying to divide us must stop rooting for America to fail and give Americans real info they need to get through the crisis.”
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