ICTV announced “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” as the name of the new virus on 11 February 2020. The disease name was subsequently recommended as COVID-19 by the World Health Organization. Thus the virus and the disease have separate names.
COVID is shorthand for COVID-19 (also sometimes spelled out as CoviD-19) which in turn represents for "Coronavirus Disease 2019." In other words, it represents a coronavirus-caused disease identified in 2019.
This is a figure of speech known as a "portmanteau" where elements of words are used to form an entirely new word. Other well-known portmanteau examples are "Nazi"...from " the German NAtionalsoZIalistische"... and "Motel" for "MOtor hoTEL"...
Putting periods between the letters indicate that the word is an "acronym" which it is not as each letter does not represent an individual word.
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C – Cheerfulness carries you, and others, far
O – Optimism is always the right mindset
V – Vibrate with positivity
I – Illuminate your every interaction
D – Discover the delight in every day LOL
ICTV announced “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” as the name of the new virus on 11 February 2020. The disease name was subsequently recommended as COVID-19 by the World Health Organization. Thus the virus and the disease have separate names.
COVID is shorthand for COVID-19 (also sometimes spelled out as CoviD-19) which in turn represents for "Coronavirus Disease 2019." In other words, it represents a coronavirus-caused disease identified in 2019.
This is a figure of speech known as a "portmanteau" where elements of words are used to form an entirely new word. Other well-known portmanteau examples are "Nazi"...from " the German NAtionalsoZIalistische"... and "Motel" for "MOtor hoTEL"...
Putting periods between the letters indicate that the word is an "acronym" which it is not as each letter does not represent an individual word.