Did a Random Person on Twitter Name the Latest COVID Variant ‘Centaurus’?
▻https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxn5ay/did-a-random-person-on-twitter-name-the-latest-covid-variant-centaurus
It’s a catchy name for a variant of covid that appears highly transmissible and seems to be supplanting other variants. It’s also not an official name. Rather, some random guy on Twitter who tweets about COVID chose it and it seems to have caught on.