COVID-19, which is short for “Coronavirus disease of 2019”, has become one of the most used terms over the past year not only within the global health community but also among regular people worldwide, and understandably so considering the universal havoc that the pandemic has wreaked in a relatively short period of time.

But one can make the argument that if Wuhan, the city where COVID-19 first emerged, had been located somewhere in Africa instead of China, the global health community would not have hesitated at all to call it “the Wuhan virus”.

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