The WHO says "COVID-19", and that's my usage.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 18:01 Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I vote for all caps, without the hyphen (space between optional)
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 3:58 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Any opinions here as to the use of all caps for “COVID-19?”
>>
>> As anyone who has seen my posts here over the years would know, I am not
>> exactly a stickler for spelling or capitalization, but I am having the need
>> to use the term regularly in my formal chart notes at work, and would like
>> to do what is proper.
>>
>> The AP is going with all caps, see:
>> https://www.apstylebook.com/ask_the_editors/last_seven_days (scroll to
>> bottom for last question).
>>
>> But, contrary to what the AP answer person writes (and in agreement with
>> the questioner) it does seem to me that increasingly it is being given
>> title case treatment by most media outlets (see any NYT story on the virus
>> and disease this week).
>>
>> I am strongly in favor of all caps, as it is an acronym (or is it
>> acronym-adjacent?). But then, I still prefer NASA and NATO and ESPN.
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