New York Governor Cuomo Call COVID-19 "European Virus"

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in an apparent response to President Trump’s references to the Chinese virus, has been calling coronavirus the “European virus,” because most of New York’s cases came from China via Europe, not directly from China, after restrictions on flights from China announced in late January. But people elsewhere in America might just as well call it the “New York virus,” given that — as the New York Times reported this month — the vast majority of cases across the nation came by way of New York.

Cuomo’s nomenclature fits nicely with Chinese government messaging but obscures the fact that the disease in fact came from China. Europe was just an earlier victim than we were.