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Our covid strategy must make a delta difference Premium Read Full Story It is not difficult to trace ‘Sars-CoV-2’ back to its origin. It began with symptoms. By way of etymology, ‘Sars’ is short for severe acute respiratory syndrome, a euphemism for a sliding scale of suffocation suffered by those sickened by an outbreak nearly two decades ago. It was caused by a tiny virus that was magnified and seen to have spikes, and so it acquired the prefix ‘corona’, Latin for ‘crown’, which serves as a descriptor for any such pathogen with hooks that help it cling to human cells. ‘Coronavirus’ had four syllables too many, at least for the snappy age of social media, and once the new killer of 2019 was loaded with a ‘novel’, it was a relief to have that word snipped to CoV. This was a surprise only for how long it took. Like much else about the current pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) was late on nomenclature. But what Geneva eventually gave us in Februar

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