id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-302485-hhsa76k8 Wu, Yuntao SARS-CoV-2 is an appropriate name for the new coronavirus 2020-03-06 .txt text/plain 853 51 59 be significantly attenuated to the point of becoming a new low-pathogenic or non-patho genic virus, such attenuated viral isolates could be named as lowpathogenic human coronaviruses, such as LPH-CoV. We believe that the naming of SARS-CoV-2 by the Coronavirus Study Group is aligned with the goals of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses to facilitate good practice and scientific exchange. We have read with great interest the Correspondence by Shibo Jiang and colleagues, 1 in which they propose a name change for the newly emerged coronavirus, 2 which was recently designated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the Coronavirus Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. 4 Through DivErsity pArtitioning by hieRarchical Clustering-based analyses, 5 the newly emerged coronavirus was deemed not sufficiently novel but is a sister virus to SARS-CoV, the primary viral isolate defining the species. ./cache/cord-302485-hhsa76k8.txt ./txt/cord-302485-hhsa76k8.txt