"Coronavirus" and Covid-19 are misnomers, being too general, and smacking of a misguided political correctness by the world's intellectual elite. This is a flu, manufactured by Wuhan, China in cooperation with Chapel Hill, USA, and I prefer the French word grippe to the Italian influenza.
grippe, grip, n. [Fr., lit., a seizure, from gripper, to take hold of, seize] influenza.
influenza, n. [It. influeza, influenza, lit., an influence, so called because formerly attributed by astrologers to the influence of the stars, from LL. influentia, an influence, lit., a flowing in, from L. influens (-entis), ppr. of influere, to flow in.] an acute, contagious, infectious disease, caused by any of several virutses and characterized by inflammation of the respiratory tract, fever, muscular pain, and, often, intestinal disorders: also called grippe, flu.
Webster's, New York, 1959.