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LETTER: What’s in a virus name?

Updated February 28, 2021 - 9:16 pm

First there was the UK variant of the coronavirus. Then came the South African and Brazilian variants. Now, there’s a California variant. Yet calling it the Chinese virus was somehow xenophobic. Odd.

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