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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
by 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 ago1) 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 agoOC43 used to be a pandemic one itself in 1895.
- makomk 5y agoOnly 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.