Talk:Wuhan virus

I moved these two quotes out of the entry:

• [2020 January 21, Roni Caryn Rabin, “First Patient With Wuhan Coronavirus Is Identified in the U.S.”, in New York Times:

  A man in Washington State is infected with the Wuhan coronavirus, the first confirmed case in the United States of a mysterious respiratory infection that has killed at least six people and sickened hundreds more in Asia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Tuesday.]

• 2020 November 13, Robert Hart, “More Infectious And Airborne Covid-19 Mutant Replaced Wuhan Virus To Dominate Worldwide, Research Finds”, in Forbes:

  A mutated strain of Covid-19 that developed in Europe was able to outcompete and eventually dominate the original Wuhan virus by being much more infectious […]

The first one is a quotation of a different term than this; given that we have 3+ quotations both earlier and later than this, and that this one is not particularly any more illustrative than some of those, I don't see why we need to include a quotation of a different word. I argue that the second quote is also not using "Wuhan virus" as an idiomatic term meaning "coronavirus / SARS-COV-2 / COVID-19", and the headline would make little sense if it were ("Covid-19 variant replaces Covid-19"?), it's clearly using "Wuhan virus" in a SOP way to mean "the (form of the) virus as it existed in Wuhan", as could be contrasted today with "the UK virus", etc, where [[UK virus]] should clearly not be an entry defined as "SARS-COV-2" or "COVID-19" in general: it refers, rather, to a specific strain of the virus. - -sche (discuss) 02:01, 18 March 2021 (UTC)