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While COVID is closely related to other coronaviruses, it doesn’t act the same way. So, studying them doesn’t help us that much with COVID. And we’ve been study
by bradknowles 5y ago
While COVID is closely related to other coronaviruses, it doesn’t act the same way. So, studying them doesn’t help us that much with COVID. And we’ve been studying some of them for over a hundred years.
There is new and novel activity going on here, and we don’t really understand how it works.
- paulddraper 5y agoNot really. SARS is closely related. (The virus is literally SARS-CoV-2.) COVID-19 might be unique taking every possible characteristic together, but nothing it's done so far is unique among coronaviruses.