Citations:COVID

English citations of COVID and Covid

2020 March 15, Johnny Watterson, “TV View: Saliva flies everywhere as amateur boxing fills a void”, in The Irish Times‎^[1]:
Were there 18 Covids before this virus? Still, it has the world of television sport in a tangle.
2020 March 18, Jeanette Quezada, “Kern County to open first official COVID-19 testing site”, in Bakersfield Now‎^[2]:
“What we’re really trying to do at our first tent is separate the possible COVIDs from the general medical problems,” he said.
2020 April 3, John Buttrick, “My Turn: In my New Hampshire, guns are not ‘essential’”, in Concord Monitor‎^[3]:
Gun stores essential? Wait. Wait. Perhaps I can stay at home with my new firearm purchase and defend my family from those tiny COVIDs passing by or trying to enter my house. Good target practice? How absurd!

2020, Shailendra K. Saxena, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapeutics, Springer Nature (→ISBN), page 63:
Overall mortality associated with COVID as of March 1, 2020, as estimated by the WHO, is 3.6% in China and 1.5% outside China. The mortality of COVID-19 (Fig. 6.4) is much less than that of SARS (9.6%) and MERS (34%).

2021 April 12, Bruce Y. Lee, “Ted Nugent Mentions 18 Covids, That’s Not How Covid-19 Got Its Name”, in Forbes‎^[4]:
Scroll to around the 2:20 mark in the video and you’ll hear Nugent ask, “You know, I guess I would ask you, because I’m addicted to truth, logic and common sense, and my common-sense meter would demand the answer to why weren’t we shut down for Covid one through 18?” […] “Covid-1 — and there was a Covid 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 — Covid one through 18 didn’t shut anything down but woah, Covid-19!” Yep, Nugent counted it all out for you.

2021 April 9, Luk De Wilde, Mathieu Verstichel, “Ziekenhuis in Sint-Niklaas opent derde COVID-afdeling”, in VRT NWS‎^[5]:
“Wij proberen, en dat lukt op dit moment, om de geplande normale niet-COVID-zorg nog altijd te laten doorgaan”, besluit Van den Broeck.
“We are trying, successfully at the moment, to continue providing normal, non-COVID care as always,” declared Van den Broeck.