has sought to avoid the once common practice of referring to health threats with geographic terms: Spanish flu, West Nile virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Zika and Ebola. Some variants have proved less transmissible, but Omicron could be the most worrisome new version since Delta. the word alphabet derives from the first two letters, alpha and beta.
When examining this table it becomes evident that many words in the English language have a Greek origin, e.g. The below table gives an overview of these in addition to how they are pronounced. There is no evidence that the Chinese had any say in naming the new variant, known scientifically as the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.529. There are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet. “If the WHO is this scared of the Chinese Communist Party, how can they be trusted to call them out the next time they’re trying to cover up a catastrophic global pandemic?” Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican from Texas, wrote on Twitter. For some, it rekindled criticism that the organization has been far too deferential in its dealings with the Chinese government. The omission resulted in speculation over the reasons.
The organization did not initially explain why it jumped from Mu, a lesser variant first documented in Colombia, to Omicron. The organization’s policy, he went on, requires “avoiding causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional, or ethnic groups.”
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