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(50,730 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2020, 11:29 AM Mar 2020

My local paper has this: "SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the current pandemic"

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SARS-CoV-2 - isn't this the one from 2002? [View all] question everything Mar 2020 OP

Oh, thank you. Have to keep the information current question everything Mar 2020 #2

SARS COV 1 was the first in 2003 OneBlueDotBama Mar 2020 #3

Thanks. I thought that the -2 designation came from 2002 question everything Mar 2020 #5

No, this is assumed to be a second generation virus Warpy Mar 2020 #8

By That Denomination, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #4

Far more lethal was... OneBlueDotBama Mar 2020 #6

Okay, Sir --- If That's The Way You Like It... The Magistrate Mar 2020 #7