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The name "Wuhan coronavirus" was pretty common in January (e.g. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/21/health/wuhan-coronavirus-firs...), since the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 names only came out February 11th.

I support renaming the Spanish flu to the ever-so-spiffy "maybe American maybe Chinese maybe English flu".

It should be named after the place with the first reported symptoms apparently. So let’s just call it “Kansas Fever” - it has a nice ring to it.

I refer to it as the 1918 flu, myself.

Most mainstream media were using "Wuhan Virus" or "Chinese Virus" before switching to "novel coronavirus" and finally the scientific name (after it was decided). The switch probably happened about the same time as Trump started referring to it on Twitter and in his speeches, as mainstream media tried to distance themselves from the President and use whatever name he was using as another way to criticize him. It's now become another full-blown front in the Culture War, with many SJWs attempting to even rename Spanish Flu on Wikipedia!

CNN called it the Wuhan virus for weeks.