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Every so often, a new theory pops up on social media about the meaning of COVID-19, the name given to the disease caused by the coronavirus strain that began spreading in late 2019 and continued into 2021. Invariably, those theories are pretty outlandish. The latest one emerged in a series of tweets that claimed that COVID stands for Certificate of Vaccination ID, and that 19 corresponds to the letters AI, which stands for Artificial Intelligence. We covered the meaning of COVID-19 in March 2020, when the disease was spreading globally. We learned: Since COVID-19 does not stand for Certificate of Vaccination ID and Artificial Intelligence, we rate the above claims as False.
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