Talk:Q82069695

COVID-19

COVID-19 is the name for the disease caused by the coronavirus (Q84263196), not the coronavirus itself (Q82069695).

See today's WHO report still titled "Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) - Situation Report":

Following WHO best practices for naming of new human infectious diseases, which were developed in consultation and collaboration with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), WHO has named the disease COVID-19, short for “coronavirus disease 2019.”

And WHO Director-General's speech: First of all, we now have a name for the disease: COVID-19..

--Thibaut (talk) 19:45, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

The new name of the coronavirus is SARS-CoV-2, cf. [1]. --Thibaut (talk) 20:20, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Not yet. --Succu (talk) 20:28, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

taxon rank

@Succu: What do you think of taxon rank? If you apply the name from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.07.937862, it also shows that SARS-Cov-2 is just a strain. --Njzjz (talk) 20:37, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

„bioRxiv is receiving many new papers on coronavirus 2019-nCoV. A reminder: these are preliminary reports that have not been peer-reviewed. They should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or be reported in news media as established information.“ BTW: strain (Q855769) is not a rank. --Succu (talk) 20:44, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

But it has been reported by ICTV, [2].--Njzjz (talk) 21:09, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

So what? The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (Q580606) regulates virus names at species level and above. No official decision was done yet. --Succu (talk) 22:04, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

More exactly, it is very probably a group of strains. --SCIdude (talk) 10:32, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Any source for this claim? --Succu (talk) 11:34, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Q87072039, where they find an S- and an L-type. In principle whenever there is some spatial separation you'll see genetic drift.. --SCIdude (talk) 17:00, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

I readded the old value. --Succu (talk) 17:55, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

contact transmission?

The term contact transmission is defined as "direct transmission process during which the pathogen is transmitted from a reservoir, source or host to another host by kissing, skin-to-skin contact, sexual intercourse, or by contact with soil or vegetation containing the pathogen" 1. While it's probable that kissing will transmit it, there is no study that shows the process. The news article given as reference may well be unaware of the definition. Any objections before I remove the claim? Also "direct transmission" is a superclass of "airborne transmission" so can be removed. --SCIdude (talk) 08:53, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

The "pathogen transmission process" claims should be on "COVID-19" not here anyway... --SCIdude (talk) 09:34, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Name in French

According to the WHO, the official abbreviation of the virus name in French is SRAS-CoV-2 (not SARS-CoV-2, unlike in other languages, see the official WHO reference). Can someone update the Wikidata name in French accordingly? Thanks in advance!

144.85.166.10 20:53, 28 March 2020 (UTC).

•  Done.—Njzjz (talk) 23:34, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
  • The WHO seem to have changed their mind and went back to SARS-CoV-2 (see also this discussion on the French Wikipedia). --Thibaut (talk) 02:27, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Should we remove all the "Wuhan coronavirus" aliases?

Not based on Red China's claims, but because there's a SARS-CoV-2 (Q88104003) on specieswiki. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:52, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Définition en français entachée de coquilles

souche virale à l'origine de la pandémie liée au corona virus COVID-19 qui à démaré à la fin 2019. À changer en

souche de coronavirus à l'origine de la pandémie qui a démarré fin 2019 (Covid-19) Roannecoo (talk) 00:02, 17 May 2020 (UTC)