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Viruses are the physical thing which makes you sick. The disease is the sickness the virus (in this case) gives you. The problem is that nobody in the media* kn
by Godel_unicode 7y ago
Viruses are the physical thing which makes you sick. The disease is the sickness the virus (in this case) gives you. The problem is that nobody in the media* knows the difference or pays attention to it when reporting it.
Wikipedia calls diseases "medical conditions that are associated with specific symptoms and signs".
- ohyeshedid 7y agoThank you for the insight. It's been an interesting night; never before had I thought of chicken pox or a cold as a disease, but that's what they're classified as. In my worldview, up until tonight, my understanding of a disease was something that won't go away on it's own. Heart disease, Huntington's, etc. I agree about the media. While I've seen COVID-19 everywhere; I didn't know anything about the nomenclature in this field and have only heard references to a virus, not a disease.