US President called the COVID-19 'the Chinese virus', why is that wrong? | Oneindia News

  • 4 years ago
US President Donald Trump has been using the label Chinese virus to refer to the COVID-19. He defended this as a correct identifier because the virus had in fact originated from China. His choice of words has been called out as racist. We explain why viruses are reffered to by their scientific names and how we arrive at these terms.

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