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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by somewhereoutth on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @07:28PM (#31009482)
It is a novel virus, new to us, so it is different.

How different, and what this means in terms of individual and public health, is what we are currently finding out.

Notably, Long Covid effects have a considerably higher prevalence than 'Long Flu'.

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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by nradov on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @10:04PM (#31010462)
SARS-CoV-2 is only "novel" in the sense that no one had acquired immunity to it before 2019. But otherwise it's very similar to other betacoronaviruses such as HCoV-OC43.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2FS0262-4079(20)30862-9

We don't actually know the prevalence of "long flu".

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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by somewhereoutth on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:45PM (#31046861)
Closer relatives would be SARS-CoV-1 and MERS. Thankfully -2 is nowhere near as virulent as either.
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