> Watson labs
The thing to dig for is who called it the Coronavirus first because that is NOT the scientific name for it.
-SB
These types of viruses have been called coronaviruses, at least since I was an undergraduate in the 80s, and known as an agent that causes the common cold.
“Coronaviruses have an envelope that is derived from intracellular membranes and not the plasma membrane. In electron micrographs they have spikes sticking out of their surfaces (due to a large glycoprotein), leading to their name (corona = crown)” https://www.microbiologybook.org/virol/coronaviruses.htm