Guys I *literally* said that COVID-19 is the disease and SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. You can stop re-explaining my own tweet to me now.
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Okay, can we get our stuff together with the coronavirus naming scheme? First it was 2019-nCoV. Then the disease was called COVID-19 (but a bunch of people are mistakenly calling the virus that now). Now the virus is SARS-CoV-2. But SARS is itself a different disease. What?
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The virus has been SARS-CoV-2 for a while; it's considered a variant of the SARS virus. COVID-19 is the name for the outbreak itself.
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COVID-19 is the name of the disease. The outbreak doesn't have a name per se beyond "2019-20 coronavirus outbreak" or such as far as I can tell.
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The disease is COVID-19, the virus is SARS-CoV-2.
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Yes, that's exactly what I said. Which makes no sense, because the virus is named after a *different* related disease than the one it actually causes.
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So to summarize: - There are 2 strains of SARSr-CoV - One is SARS-CoV (implied -1), which causes SARS - One is SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19
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Yup. Terrible naming scheme.
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SARS epidemic in 2002 was caused the virus SARS-CoV. COVID-19 disease is caused by virus SARS-CoV-2.
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It's similar to sars I think but instead of affecting the lung tissue it just fills it with mucus buildup causing breathing problems.
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