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The simple, accurate, anti-WHO name for the disease is SARS2, full stop.
This is not just a political decision. There's a ton of data on SARS1 that's useful to keep in the public health frame for this disease.
For example, broad presence of ground glass opacity was characteristic/diagnostic for SARS1 patients. https://twitter.com/slovborg/status/1253295338259169280
SARS2 expresses more viral load than SARS (explaining its high infectiousness), and has a narrower range of inflammatory factors/cytokines elevated by it, which explains its lower average severity, but despite differences- many many similarities. https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1253066293688885249
Scientists and doctors are discovering a great deal about SARS2 over these few months, but an understanding of SARS1 is extremely informative about what we can expect about transmission as well as disease progression. https://twitter.com/turnbolt11/status/1253344954958655488
The SARS2 virus itself is much like SARS and close bat relatives of SARS. https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1224364446434385925
Treatment for SARS didn't produce any slam-dunks, but still is a useful source of possibilities. https://twitter.com/squid_o_war/status/1247567085330366465
