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That is no longer the case as of 2015. Place names are no longer used because of the stigmatization issues:

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...

The WHO named it COVID-19 specifically to change that fact, as it leads to things like Asian-Americans being beat up despite having nothing to do with the virus.

COVID-19 is the disease. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus.

COVID-19 is the term media, the CDC, etc. are using to discuss it. Being pedantic about it doesn't impress anyone.

For example, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html says "Coronavirus (COVID-19)". So does https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2....

The point: WHO has moved away from geolocated names. https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-has-a-name-the-deadl...

cf Marburgvirus