the "foreign virus" line drew immediate criticism, including from cnn's jim acosta, who told chris cuomo following the address, "i think it is going to come across to a lot of americans as smacking of xenophobia to use that kind of term in this speech." this comes on the heels of a number of republican politicians, including secretary of state mike pompeo and house minority leader kevin mccarthy, making a point of referring to the "wuhan virus" or "chinese coronavirus." the world health organization, in officially giving the disease caused by the virus the name covid-19, sought to avoid just this type of geographic stigmatization. 