Wonder will omnicroms be renamed?
Given recent news do you think the material name will be changed?
Forum Discussion
"DarjeloSalas;c-2317321" wrote:"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)...
The 19 refers to the year in which this particular Coronavirus was detected.
It is wrong to think there have been 18 viruses preceding this one.
Well, to be fair, there have been A LOT of corona viruses preceding this one. They just weren't anything major. Or they were major, like in the case of MERS, but were easily contained and had a high mortality rate so it didn't spread far. What makes this one special is that you're contagious for quite a while before symptoms present so you're spreading it before you know you have it. I'm not a doctor, I'm sure there are a ton of other things that make it special from previous corona viruses, but that's my understanding.
