【INSIDER】’Covid-22′ went viral on Twitter, but it’s just a misleading nickname for a hypothetical phase of the pandemic

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'Covid-22' went viral on Twitter, but it's just a misleading nickname for a hypothetical phase of the pandemic

An immunologist's comments about 'Covid-22,' his nickname for a hypothetical future phase of COVID-19, were taken out of...

こんな小ネタが起こってたんですね、知らなかったw

purported
predominant
outcry
term
clarified
usage

purported

意味　(かたく)[[名]の前で]…とされている, …といううわさの

One Twitter user shared a purported screenshot from when the trending hashtag was visible.
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predominant

意味　優勢な、主流の

Some worried it could be more dangerous than the Delta variant, which is now the predominant coronavirus variant in the US.
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outcry

意味　抗議

A major source of the Twitter outcry came from a viral tweet from the news website Insider Paper (no affiliation with Insider), which published an article about Reddy’s remarks and tweeted about it on Monday afternoon.
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term

意味　用語

The term is not in line with how we name variants
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ですよねー。専門家が発した単語は文脈見ずに信じてしまうのかー。

Certain variants of the novel coronavirus are named using greek letters, like Delta and Lambda, under a plan developed by the World Health Organization.
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「ラムダ」ってこんな綴りなんだ！

clarified

意味　明らかにした、明確にした

Reddy, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, clarified his comments in an interview with Newsweek.
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usage

意味　利用方法

“I of course agree that the proper and correct usage of the term for the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 is COVID-19. I unfortunately did not realise that my use of the term ‘COVID-21’ or ‘COVID-22’ would lead to such a reaction,” he said.
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