COVID-19, Framing and Naming a Pandemic: How What Is Not in a Disease Name May Be More Important than What Is
While the disease name and acronym COVID-19, where ‘CO’ refers to ‘corona’, ‘VI’ to virus, ‘D’ to disease, and ‘19′ the detection year, represents a rational, historically informed, and even culturally sensitive name choice by the World Health Organization, from the perspective of an ethnography of...
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MDPI AG
2023-02-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/12/2/346 |