Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government A professor at Purdue University referred to the coronavirus as the “Wuhan virus” in a class syllabus, prompting several students to complain.
Randy Rapp, a professor at Purdue, incorporated the term “Wuhan virus” into his syllabus for a class on construction management. The phrase refers to the province in China where COVID-19 was first discovered.
Critics of the phrase say referring to COVID-19 or any other theory to the disease’s origin as the “Wuhan virus” is racially tinged and invites harassment and racism toward ethnic Asians…
