Just learned something about the corona virus

[mitch96]

The name COVID-19 comes from
CORONA VIRUS DISEASE 2019

Also that a cold is a corona virus. The Flu is a corona virus, so is SARS. Just different variations of the same type of virus...

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[underpants]

1. The 19 has nothing to do with the year

It's the 19th Coronavirus. It's like a hurricane name.

[hlthe2b]

7. Actually that is not true.

The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has a name: Covid-19.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, announced the name Tuesday, giving a specific identifier to a disease that has been confirmed in more than 42,000 people and caused more than 1,000 deaths in China. There have been fewer than 400 cases in 24 other countries, with one death.

In choosing the name, WHO advisers focused simply on the type of virus that causes the disease. Co and Vi come from coronavirus, Tedros explained, with D meaning disease and 19 standing for 2019, the year the first cases were seen.

The virus that causes the disease has been known provisionally as 2019-nCoV. Also on Tuesday, a coronavirus group from the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, which is responsible for naming new viruses, proposed designating the novel coronavirus as SARS-CoV-2, according to a preprint of a paper posted online. (Preprints are versions of papers that have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal.) The name reflects the genetic similarities between the new coronavirus and the coronavirus that caused the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/11/disease-caused-by-the-novel-coronavirus-has-name-covid-19/

[underpants]

9. Wow I had understood completely the opposite

Okay now I know.

[hlthe2b]

11. Lots of fast moving information...

[mitch96]

18. And I thought I was so slick learning from the WiKi machine.. oh well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019
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[RockRaven]

2. Flu is not a coronavirus. It's an orthomyxovirus.

[applegrove]

3. Influenza is not a corona virus. Sars is.

[hlthe2b]

4. Influenza viruses are NOT Coronaviruses. They are in the Family, Orthomyxidae

single-stranded RNA viruses, with four major genera, A, B, C, and D.


There are many Coronaviruses, but Influenza viruses are not among them.

[defacto7]

5. Nope, keep reading.

[greenjar_01]

6. Now explain COVFEFE

[snort]

8. I like CORVID19 better.

Then you can say "Hey man, I got the Crow, the Crow One Nine" and sound like you're really cool.

[TexasProgresive]

10. Only SARS is a Coronavirus.

Influenza is a RNA virus, , it contains eight pieces of segmented negative-sense RNA.

(Cold) Rhinoviruses have single-stranded positive sense RNA genomes of between 7200 and 8500 nt in length.

Coronaviruses comprise the subfamily Orthocoronavirinae in the family Coronaviridae, in the order Nidovirales.[5][6] They are enveloped viruses with a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome and a nucleocapsid of helical symmetry.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is the strain of virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).[2]

All from Wikipedia articles, on my tablet and it’s a problem pasting.

[sl8]

12. According to Merck, about 50% of colds are caused by rhinoviruses.

Some are caused by coronaviruses


https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/respiratory-viruses/common-cold

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About 50% of all colds are caused by one of the > 100 serotypes of rhinoviruses. Coronaviruses cause some outbreaks, and infections caused by influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, enteroviruses, adenoviruses, respiratory syncytial viruses, and metapneumoviruses may also manifest as the common cold, particularly in patients who are experiencing reinfection.

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[TexasProgresive]

13. Perhaps you should read that again

In particular, “ Coronaviruses cause some outbreaks.” Followed by 6 other culprits. The figure I read is 10% of colds are from Coronaviruses.

[sl8]

14. One of us needs to reread.

What part of my post do you disagree with?

[TexasProgresive]

15. You're right I got a Coronavirus in my cornea, sorry.

[sl8]

16. No worries.

[cwydro]

17. Thank you.

Coronaviruses have been around causing colds for awhile.