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30 or so coronaviruses side by side.


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> There's hundreds of coronavirus and they're all respiratory viruses.

How many coronaviruses can infect humans?


There are seven coronaviruses that infect humans.

229E, NL63, OC43, HKU1, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2.

You said "hundreds". What did you mean when you said hundreds?


Which coronavirus is this supposed to be? There are more than one, and the text doesn't differentiate. Also, it is closer to 30Kb.

There is no "the coronavirus." The article mentions at least nine or ten different ones. There are dozens of coronaviruses.

sars and mers and thousands of others are also coronaviruses. this one is currently designated "2019 novel coronavirus" which is not very practical

I meant a variety of different corona viruses that have not yet the ability to replicate in humans. Corona virus is a family of viruses. SARS-2 one that made it he jump from animals to humans.

There are 4 of them actually. HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-229E.

In the United States, many variants of the new coronavirus have been detected, and the types of these viruses are more complex than those found in China.

I'll take 2 coronavirus.

I'm not sure the source of that chart. The viruses contained in the Coronavirus category aren't even the SARS-CoV-2 that we call COVID. They list 4 strains, all of which are the regular circulating strains of coronavirus. I'd say this is not accurate at all.

I wish people would stop treating “coronavirus” and COVID-19 (or SARS-CoV-19) as synonyms. They are not. There are many more coronaviruses.

I'll add that the family of viruses is called Corona virus because they are 'crown shaped'

It looks like a coronavirus

FEIW, there are at least four common coronaviruses (229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1) that humans transmit, and based on the CDC's language there are other less common ones.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/general-information.html



Aren't coronaviruses pretty common...?

We have over a decade of data on this for coronaviruses.

well, at least with the different coronavirus strains, they are similar enough that getting one is effectively like an immunisation against all the other strains. Now you could probably get two strains simultaneously if you were independently infected separately by both at the same time. Delta, however, isn't quite common enough for that to be likely I think.

Coronavirus is a class of viruses, of which this is a single "specie".
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