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This is What COVID-19 Does to Your Body That Makes It So Deadly

COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Coronaviruses belong to a group of viruses that infect animals, from peacocks to whales. They’re named for the bulb-tipped spikes that project from the virus’s surface and give the appearance of a corona surrounding it.

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Chinese Studies Link Quarantines with Coronavirus Mutations

Three separate studies suggest the unprecedented mass quarantine measures taken to limit the spread of the deadly coronavirus in China may have changed its genetic course, potentially making it more “insidious” and harder to detect.Clinical researchers in Wuhan, where the new virus strain first emerged in December, say that locking down millions of people may have caused mutations in the genetic make-up of the coronavirus that resulted in milder symptoms of the pneumonia-like illness, or no initial symptoms at all in the early stage of infection.

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Weaponized Coronavirus ‘up to 20 times more likely than SARS to bind to human cells’

We occasionally catch cold with the common coronavirus and be able to rid of them in a week, depending on the quality of our response. But this Wuhan released COVID-19 strain appears to be more readily transmittable from human to human than SARS, Texas researchers find.

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