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LAS14

(13,783 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:31 PM Mar 2020

When Google fails me, I go to DU (Corona virus question)

What do you call the single thingey pictured on all the cable channels? The round thing with red crowns. Is it a virus particle? Google says it's a "submicroscopic, parasitic particles of genetic material contained in a protein coat " Is that the only way to talk about just one bit of Corona virus?

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When Google fails me, I go to DU (Corona virus question) (Original Post) LAS14 Mar 2020 OP

Yes. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2020 #1

this may help katusha Mar 2020 #2

Thanks!!!! nt LAS14 Mar 2020 #4

That is a general description of what any virus is. nt tblue37 Mar 2020 #3

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)

1. Yes.

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:36 PM

Mar 2020

For all intents and purposes the spiked sphere you're seeing everywhere is a virus particle. It has a more specific definition for people in the business of studying viruses, but for the general population this term will do.