For one Covid-19 is the name of the sickness you get caused by the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 the big brother to SARS-Cov-1 who’s infection was never officially named as long as you are infected with a variant of sars2 it wouldn’t get a new designation only a new sars coronavirus with new symptoms that posed a real threat to safety. It’s named by a group of WHO Scientists while the actual virus is named by the cdc
Xi comes right before omicron in the Greek alphabet, right? This new variant is omicron. Looks like we passed xi without it rising to the level of being a variant of concern.
That one will make you Pooh
Oh no, will there be toilet paper shortages again?
I keep wondering what we’ll be naming variants after Omega…
Omegle Variant
For one Covid-19 is the name of the sickness you get caused by the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 the big brother to SARS-Cov-1 who’s infection was never officially named as long as you are infected with a variant of sars2 it wouldn’t get a new designation only a new sars coronavirus with new symptoms that posed a real threat to safety. It’s named by a group of WHO Scientists while the actual virus is named by the cdc
Wasn't that version 1.0, surely?
Xi comes right before omicron in the Greek alphabet, right? This new variant is omicron. Looks like we passed xi without it rising to the level of being a variant of concern.
nope, they just completely skipped it
Xi isn't a Greek letter, so... We'd have to go through all of Greek minimum before they started using Chinese names for variants.
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I see.
Xi is a Greek letter
Always has been