Just what is COVID-19 anyway?

In hopes of providing a little clarification:

severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the name of the actual virus that causes novel coronavirus, later renamed COVID-19.

COVID19 broken down means:
CO - Corona
VI - Virus
D - Disease
19 - 2019

So most people know it originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019 and originally transmitted from animal to human (term is zoonotic) and at some point the virus mutated and allowed transmission from person to person. Since this is a new virus, no one has immunity to it, thus the pandemic.

Source: World Health Organization

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