Chinese virus
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Chinese virus
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From Chinese + virus.
noun Chinese viruses
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Synonym of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said on Twitter that “I don’t understand why China gets upset bc we refer to the virus that originated there the ‘Chinese virus’ Spain never got upset when we referred to the Spanish flu in 1918&1919.”
Similar: SARS-CoV-2
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Synonym of coronavirus, the disease COVID-19.
There were supposed to be armies. Grand armies of contact tracers crisscrossing every county in the country on the hunt for the Chinese virus.
Similar: coronavirus
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, virus. A pathogen or malware originating, identified, or causing outbreaks in China. The Chinese virus seems to be more closely related to the marine type of Mexican virus than to the European virus.
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| 日本語 | 武漢肺炎 Bukan haien, 武漢ウイルス Bukan uirusu |
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| Deutsch | chinesischer Virus, chinesisches Virus, China-Virus, Chinavirus |
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