Why is it racist to call Covid 19 the Chinese virus since it originated in Wuhan, China?

Because China doesn't want to accept responsibility and will impede any investigation levelled against them.

It is racist to call it the Chinese virus. The Chinese didn't make this virus, they just had the first wave of it. So why don't you call it by its proper name: Covid19?

Silly political correctness which costs lives. 

well because the virus did not originate from chinese people but as an adaption to the sars virus but i don't think it is racist just misinformed about the fact pathagines dont have race

it's like the first AIDS was found in USA，then everybody call AIDS the USA virus, what do you think? and behind Covid 19 ,there are so many mysterious stories are still in the dark, why should China accept  all you told now. 

Other epidemics have not been called by the place name. The swine flu started in the US and Mexico. No one really knows where the Spanish flu started, except that it wasn't in Spain. It was called that because the Spanish press could write about it, unlike the journalists in the countries that were fighting WWI. There's some indication it started in the US- the first person diagnosed was a US soldier, but the soldiers had been all over the world. H1N! wasn't called by a place name. The only reason people want to label this virus the China virus is because they want to blame China. Trump encourages that because he wants to deflect from his own incompetence. 

Alt-right = whine then blame but we got no ideas. It's a virus, it wasn't MADE anyplace, it just IS. Maybe we should call it the Oliver virus?

So  .. Spanish Flu should actually be re-named American Flu then ?

Oh, someone has already made that point, I see.

It's not really 'racist' but certain people will use it in that manner.  There have already been attacks on people of Chinese ancestry who've never even been to China...

And if we are going to be precise about where viruses came from...the so-called Spanish Flu actually originated in the USA. Perhaps we should change it's name to the American flu.