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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
There's more than one type of coronavirus. They've been around a long time. Covid-19, just like SARS and MERS, belongs to the same family of viruses (coronaviruses) as the ones that can cause the common cold. It's just potentially a lot nastier.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/gene...formation.html
Rhinoviruses also cause cold-type symptoms, but afaik have never mutated into anything deadly the way coronaviruses sometimes do.
Influenza causes 'flu. The 'flu virus mutation also vary from relatively mild to Spanish-flu-we're-fucked intensity.
Minor correction. COVID-19 is not a virus, it's the collected symptoms of the virus replicating and the physiological consequences thereof.
COVID19 = Coronavirus Disease (discovered in) 2019.
The virus is SARS-CoV2 (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Coronavirus 2).
The first SARS wasn't too, too long ago, and was a big deal in China, but was not taken seriously in the West.
Pointless link that has nothing to do with the statement you made is pointless.
Thanks to you and cocco for the similar correction that the cold is a collection of symptoms and not the rhinovirus that causes those symptoms.
I hadn't linked the fact that 2 different viruses with similar symptoms may be bannered under the symptoms as causing the same disease.
In fact, having read cocco's links, I'm actually shocked that so many different things cause what I've considered 1 thing. TIL.
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