Some states. In Texas, the Lieutenant Governor said that old people would be happy to die to save the economy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/24/covid-19-texas-official-suggests-elderly-willing-die-economy/2905990001/
My boss' wife is a GP, she came down with symptoms a couple of weeks' back. After a week of self-isolation, she's back at work. It would be very useful for her to know if she was now immune or not, but no - there's not testing for NHS staff who aren't seriously ill.
Whether you agree with the royal family or not, he was supposedly in close contact with Prince Albert of Monaco, who revealed he tested positive *before* Prince Charles then travelled up to Deeside (an area without very much in the way of Coronavirus), which is very much not a good idea. He also...
I remember the panic-buying of petrol a few years back. Two local garages took different paths; one hiked the prices sky high, the other kept the prices the same but limited people to £20 worth. Which garage do I still go to?
People do remember.
I would think the main problem is that the virus has a correct name and it's important to not cloud the issue and advice that's coming out by confusing people with multiple names. The guidelines for naming these things has been updated to ensure that it's not linked to a place, a group of...