Citations:COVID

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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.

Dutch citations of COVID

  • 2021 April 9, Luk De Wilde, Mathieu Verstichel, “Ziekenhuis in Sint-Niklaas opent derde COVID-afdeling [Hospital in Sint-Niklaas opens third COVID ward]”, 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.