Is it OK to describe coronavirus as just corona? Is that common practice?

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Around here, I hear it as “Covid”. You ask about “corona” and someone will hand you a beer...

ABCDEF7 · M

@bijouxbroussard Covid is disease, not the virus.

@ABCDEF7 Nonetheless, when people around where I live are discussing the current pandemic, they tend to say “Covid” rather than “corona”. So sue us.

ABCDEF7 · M

@bijouxbroussard Where I stay people say Corona even when they got the (covid)disease, You may also feel free to sue against us.