Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in...
by nexuist on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:08PM
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I have no credibility to answer this question, and I don't even know what any of the words on that page mean, but is it possible that it was always the same virus and just documented under two different names? After all, pneumonia is a symptom of coronavirus, so wouldn't it make sense that people thought it was just the "Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus" until later reports and information indicated it would actually be a "bat SARS-like coronavirus"?
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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in...
by hisomehelppls on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:19PM
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Nope, not a chance! The news of it being properly isolated, sequenced and placed in a tree directly under bat SARS-like coronavirus that shows they are considered separate:
https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2020/01/13/novel-coron...
Another MAJOR key difference here: One is not transmissible to humans and the other is.
Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in...
by lovehashbrowns on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:48PM
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Pneumonia is just an infection of the lungs, and that can be caused by many things, including aspiration. So by your logic, all things that cause headaches are actually the same virus because they all cause headaches.
Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in...
by peteretep on Saturday January 25, 2020 @11:05PM
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> Pneumonia is just an infection of the lungs
Actually that’s not true either, you can catch pneumonia from breathing the wrong chemicals. Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs, which is frequently caused by infection.