Wonder will omnicroms be renamed?
Given recent news do you think the material name will be changed?
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"cboath7;c-2317318" wrote:
The didn't skip letters. It's the name the variants in order, but we only hear about the ones that are noteworthy.
I mean there weren't covid 1-18 pandemics/scares (though i think SARS was one)...
MERS.
"Covid" is a medical abbreviation of corona virus. A corona virus is just another type of virus, except it has little nubbins on it that looked like crowns when discovered, but now, in my opinion, look like red Shrek ears.
The number is the year that it was first identified, 2019.
The Greek letter is the order in which the variant is classified. Most variants aren't significantly different from "wild" covid, the original that hit in 2019 and the first half of 2020, so they go unremarked. The alpha, beta, and gamma variants didn't out-compete the wild strain, so we barely heard about them. The delta variant was more contagious, so it supplanted the wild strain and we heard a lot about it. If someone got it between May 2021 and now, odds are they got delta instead of anything else, with a minor chance of still getting the original strain.
