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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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