The WHO-China search for the origins of the coronavirus

Re:The WHO-China search for the origins of the coronavirus by ttoomm28 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @06:06PM (#26615136)

Strange word to describe that, seems rather fair actually. Do you think UK, south African, brazilian variant are 'despicable' ?

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Re:The WHO-China search for the origins of the coronavirus by KiwiJohnno on Sunday March 28, 2021 @11:40PM (#26617479)

The thing is, the virus already had a name. He just refused to call it by its official name, because that wasn't offensive enough for him.

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Re:The WHO-China search for the origins of the coronavirus by learnstats2 on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:37AM (#26619286)

I think it's substantially different.

Initial outbreaks of viruses occur geographically at random (with China having a >1/6 chance); the fact that there are significant UK, South African, and Brazilian variants has a much lower random component and a much higher deterministic component. It also illustrates where those variants are still primarily spreading.

If one of those variants become globally dominant, I doubt we will continue to name them after the location.

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