Our View: Just the facts, people. Just the facts

Many claims and comments have been made about novel coronavirus 2019 and the illness it causes, COVID-19, from the start, and they are continuing.

People need to be careful what they say.

To start with, people shouldn’t call it “the flu,” whether it is with any racist modifier or not.

Coronavirus is not the flu. Influenza is caused by the influenza virus.

And that is one of the problems that has led to restrictions and shutdowns across the nation, and the world, to slow the spread of the virus. It is new.

Evidence indicates that the virus is a mutation of a virus that normally can infect bats...