Why Does Spellcheck Give COVID the Honor of Being All Capitalized?

It’s a piece of crap virus trying to kill us

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COVID Deserves to Be All Caps?

Use Spellcheck of any kind and you will see COVID is in all capital letters.

I have mentioned Covid-19 and its variants in some of my articles. Every time I use spellcheck COVID gets totally capitalized. As in ALL CAPS.

Why is that?

What makes that creepy little killer virus worthy of all capital letters?

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It’s not really acceptable in any form unless it is being SHOUTED out. As in, it’s so very important. See above reference.

There are at least 10 variants of COVID-19 now identified, that is a whole different article, to be written by someone way more informed and qualified than me.

So far it’s main variants Omicron and Delta are not coming up as all capital letters when using Spellcheck.