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> 'common cold' coronaviruses I think you mean rhinoviruses?
by dataflow 5y ago
> 'common cold' coronaviruses
I think you mean rhinoviruses?
- Gibbon1 5y agoThere are four endemic coronaviruses that infect humans. One of them uses the same receptor ACE2 to infect cells. That one is getting a harder look. There is also SARS which is extinct. And MERS which is producing sporadic outbreaks.
- makomk 5y agoThe common cold is caused by a bunch of viruses, including both rhinoviruses and coronaviruses. There's four different human coronaviruses that we know about, one of which (HKU1) was only discovered surprisingly recently.