Yep, and that's the distinction we'd use in a research paper (and the one I use in this piece on viral evolution: https://kucharski.substack.com/p/what-next-for-covid-evolution). But given many outlets and organisations refer to COVID in general articles about seasonal effects, and ONS call it the COVID-19 Infection Survey, I decided to use COVID throughout here.
“ Take the 2019 influenza epidemic in Australia, which was usually early and large:” - shouldn’t that be “unusually early” ?
Yep, good spot.
One minor correction, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus, Covid-19 is the disease.
Yep, and that's the distinction we'd use in a research paper (and the one I use in this piece on viral evolution: https://kucharski.substack.com/p/what-next-for-covid-evolution). But given many outlets and organisations refer to COVID in general articles about seasonal effects, and ONS call it the COVID-19 Infection Survey, I decided to use COVID throughout here.
Understood, much like infection is used for disease.