[xeromal]

We're past that now. It's known as Pfizer in the official language of too many cities and countries.

[doktorhladnjak]

Can't we all just hate on the now official name for the vaccine of "Comirnaty"?

[anoncake]

Marketing person asked to find a catchy name: "This is literally a Covid vaccine, I'll just grab a handful of scrabble pieces and it'll sell anyway"

[exmadscientist]

The actual INN of "tozinameran" is at least better. Not that INNs really get used for products like this.

[simonCGN]

No, we are not past that. Just because it is used wrongly it does not mean that it needs to stay that way.

[xeromal]

Shit happens. Every tissue in the US is called kleenex even though that is a brand.

Lots of people call all kinds of skewers Doner Kebab even though that's incorrect.

It's speech and sometimes it doesn't fit our nice rules.

[xboxnolifes]

> Every tissue in the US is called kleenex even though that is a brand.

The only people who call them that are at least 50. Everyone I know except my grandmother calls them tissues. Things change. Shit happens.

[SimeVidas]

What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.

[herbst]

It is maybe for you but not everywhere, i can see it being referred to as Biontech just as often, if not oftener than Pfizer. Maybe because Germany is our neighboor, but maybe also because it is "more right"

[xeromal]

Yeah, I was speaking more to California and the US

[herbst]

"many cities and countries" means California, good to know.

[xeromal]

I've been ruined by your extremely effective oratory skill.

[jonathanstrange]

I only know it as Biontech-Pfizer vaccine.