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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by tom_mellior on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:26AM (#23291335)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019: "Common symptoms include fever, cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, and loss of smell and taste.[6][7][13] While the majority of cases result in mild symptoms, some progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) likely precipitated by a cytokine storm,[14] multi-organ failure, septic shock, and blood clots."
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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by tom_mellior on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:46AM (#23292316)
You said to check Wikipedia. I checked Wikipedia. Where did I lie?
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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by tom_mellior on Sunday May 24, 2020 @03:32PM (#23293997)
The name of the disease comes from the similarity of the virus to another one that caused a respiratory illness. And from it initially seeming to be mainly a respiratory illness as well. Now more data has come in, and it looks to medical professionals like it's not purely respiratory. Looks like science in action to me.
Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by nickthemagicman on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:35PM (#23294474)
No. That's so false it's shocking. The name of the virus comes from the fact that it is genetically a corona virus. There are 7 known corona viruses that affect humans and every single one of them are respiratory.

What ever data 'sources' you're reading are wrong.

Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by tom_mellior on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:10AM (#23300608)
Looks like I need to start quoting your posts since they tend to get flagged into oblivion.

> The name of the virus comes from the fact that it is genetically a corona virus.

This is a weird claim, since in the post above you specifically pointed out that its name contains "Severe Acute RESPIRATORY Syndrome", which yes, is a hint that it was thought to be respiratory. But four other human coronaviruses don't have "respiratory" in their name. It's not like coronaviruses automatically get that name.

> There are 7 known corona viruses that affect humans and every single one of them are respiratory.

This is true, but I don't think that means that they are "not allowed" to have symptoms that are outside the lungs. The table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_human... lists diarrhea as a fairly frequent symptom of MERS (26%) and SARS-1 (20-25%). As a molecular biologist you will know more about this than I do, but it looks to me like these respiratory viruses can affect different parts of the body. That is also how it looks to medical professionals in the field, as discussed in the featured article.

> What ever data 'sources' you're reading are wrong.

You had plenty of opportunities in this thread to post your own sources. I think the only time you even referred to a source was to the Wikipedia page which I quoted back at you, which made you sad.

Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by JoeAltmaier on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:19AM (#23291297)
I gotta think this is a bot or troll response? So obviously wrong and argumentative.
Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by ak39 on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:23AM (#23292136)
It's very frustrating to read strong views without the views being substantiated. I know it's unrealistic to ask everyone commenting in such threads to prefix their commentary with "IAD" or "IANAD" (I am a medical doctor or I am not a medical doctor) but without such "qualifications" people like me (not a doctor) are left with little to go by.
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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by JoeAltmaier on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:42AM (#23292289)
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200423/the-great-invader-h...

There you go, 'son'. So, still obviously wrong and argumentative. Is this even a real account? Or just an insult-bot?

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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by castis on Sunday May 24, 2020 @01:58PM (#23293255)
> The fact that people with your arrogance and your ignorance exist actually distresses me.

Weird, your account says you joined in 2012 but it seems like today might be your first day on the internet?

Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by DanBC on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:14AM (#23292056)
> There's hundreds of coronavirus and they're all respiratory viruses.

How many coronaviruses can infect humans?

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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by DanBC on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:19AM (#23292094)
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?

Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by Supermancho on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:14PM (#23293378)
When talking about viruses, it's a little more complicated than a label. Viruses naturally differentiate in a measurable way from host to host as part of their function (hijacking the host's cells). Scientifically, viruses are lumped into common behavior and generic similarities. Many individual variations do not propagate enough to be noticed, but some do. There was quite a bit of talk from some people about the 112 strains of coronavirus, which was not constructive, but technically correct (re: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-there-more-than...? etc) awhile back.
Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by nickthemagicman on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:32PM (#23293518)
I've been rate limited by the site until now.

Of the 7 strains of Coronavirus that you just listed..which of those cause respiratory illness?

Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by DanBC on Sunday May 24, 2020 @07:36PM (#23295945)
They're all respiratory illnesses, but that doesn't mean the only affect the lungs.

MERS caused kidney failure in some patients.

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Re:Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line by dang on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:54AM (#23299305)
We ban accounts that do personal attacks and flamewar, so please don't do those things on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html