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"COVID-causing virus" So.. COVID.

• umvi 5y ago
  HIV is to AIDS as SARS-CoV-2 is to COVID
  • est31 5y ago
    Not entirely. AIDS is only the name for the final stage of the disease, when your immune system is rendered totally unable to defend your body. It usually takes years from an HIV infection until AIDS develops. In the first viremic phase of HIV you can even have fever but often people don't notice it or put it off as some innocent cold. COVID-19 however is used however to refer to all stages and forms of the disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Acquired_immunodeficiency_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Acquired_immunodefici...
• _Microft 5y ago
  The disease that develops after being infected is called COVID-19 which means Corona Virus Disease (first seen in 20)19. The virus that causes it is SARS-CoV-2, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrom Corona Virus 2, which is one of many coronaviruses. The 2 is there because there was an earlier coronavirus caused disease (SARS) in 2002 for which the pathogen was called SARS-CoV(-1).
  • dragontamer 5y ago
    > which is one of many coronaviruses. There's only like 7 coronaviruses that have been discovered to infect a human. Three of which are SARS, MERS, and COVID19. Its pretty novel, all else considered.
    • weaksauce 5y ago
      I mean you are dropping the whole colds are coronaviruses too part though. though, the "cold" has a bunch of possible viruses that cause it (something like 200 different viruses) with the rhinovirus being one of the larger ways since it's so resistant to being inactivated comparatively to sars2 which only lasts for a day to three as a fomite vector, is neutralized by soap and water or 70% IPA. If covid had a viral vector like a rhinovirus that can last for months on surfaces in wide variety of conditions on surfaces and also spread via aerosolized particles it would have been a completely different pandemic that would have been far more deadly.
      • dragontamer 5y ago
        > I mean you are dropping the whole colds are coronaviruses too part though. There's only 4 coronaviruses that causes a cold: HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-229E, and HCoV-NL63 The rest are rhinoviruses. ------- That's literally only 7 coronaviruses to care about (including the 4 that cause "common cold").
        • redis_mlc 5y ago
          1) WIV took down their database, and a NIH version, in 2019. Those listed around 30 corona sequences. 2) We don't know what corona viruses WIV is cultivating in its humanized mice and lab monkeys.
        • selimthegrim 5y ago
          OC43 used to be a pandemic one itself in 1895.
        • makomk 5y ago
          Only 4 known coronaviruses that cause a cold, anyway. While it'd be a bit surprising if there were more, HCoV-HKU1 was only discovered surprisingly recently.
• lovecg 5y ago
  “Coronavirus disease-causing virus”