Talk:Wuhan virus

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2020 November 13, Robert Hart, “More Infectious And Airborne Covid-19 Mutant Replaced Wuhan Virus To Dominate Worldwide, Research Finds”, in Forbes:

A mutated strain of Covid-19 that developed in Europe was able to outcompete and eventually dominate the original Wuhan virus by being much more infectious

The first one is a quotation of a different term than this; given that we have 3+ quotations both earlier and later than this, and that this one is not particularly any more illustrative than some of those, I don't see why we need to include a quotation of a different word. I argue that the second quote is also not using "Wuhan virus" as an idiomatic term meaning "coronavirus / SARS-COV-2 / COVID-19", and the headline would make little sense if it were ("Covid-19 variant replaces Covid-19"?), it's clearly using "Wuhan virus" in a SOP way to mean "the (form of the) virus as it existed in Wuhan", as could be contrasted today with "the UK virus", etc, where ] should clearly not be an entry defined as "SARS-COV-2" or "COVID-19" in general: it refers, rather, to a specific strain of the virus. - -sche (discuss) 02:01, 18 March 2021 (UTC)Reply