[Red Badger]

Coronavirus is a type.

Covid-19 is a species.................

[\/\/ayne]

Covid-19, Coronavirus, is there a difference?

[ecomcon]

As I understand it, “Coronavirus” is a type of virus. Covid 19 is a member of the Coronavirus group. Hence it’s name Novel Coronavirus 19. 19 being it’s year of identification.

[Fido969]

Covid-19 is a type of Coronavirus.

Covid stands for COrona VIrus Disease.

19 is the year of the strain. (2019)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

COronaVIrusDisease = COVID.

COVID is caused by a corona virus, so named because it looks like a crown.

[Bob434]

Covid 19 is racist slang for coronavirus

[foreverfree]

bump

[DannyTN]

To be more precise...

Coronavirus is a type of virus of which there are many, including 4 coronaviruses that are among the viruses that cause the common cold. Coronaviruses also include SARS, MERS and SARS-2. And there are many animal coronaviruses that affect animals and not humans.

SARS-2, aka Novel coronavirus 2019 can cause a severe acute respiratory syndrome known as COVID-19.

So COVID-19 is technically the severe respiratory illness that develops from infection with SARS-2.

But I use them all interchangeably, because I want to.

[PTBobW]

There are several identified other viruses which are Corona type - it’s the shape of the microscopic virus.

The Corona Virus which was Newly Identified in 2019 causes a disease called
COVID-19 which is an acronym for:
Corona Virus - Disease - “2019”

It’s a real disease, and it can be deadly.
Many do recover. Many ‘recover’ but then have long term issues after their ‘recovery’

[T.B. Yoits]

COVID-19 is a modified coronavirus strain. It was engineered in a lab despite being a banned gain-of-function experiment. COVID-19 did not exist in nature until it was released / escaped from Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On a related note:

Rand Paul’s Criminal Referral for Dr. Fauci Has Officially Been Delivered
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3978047/posts

[nagant]

What is the difference between juice and orange juice?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"Coronavirus" refers to any virus having a corona of spike proteins. The common cold virus is one such coronavirus.

COVID-19 is the specific coronavirus which is currently giving politicians world-wide an excuse to destroy our lives even more than they usually do. It was discovered in 2019 (hence the name) and it looks like there's a strong possibility it was created at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology as part of their research into virus gain-of-function.

Gain-of-function describes human manipulation to increase the virulence of biological agents such as viruses.

[FlyingEagle]

Coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus.

I’m convinced Covid 19 is a bioweapon manufactured in China for its investors. Ditto Delta “variant” - just another weapon.

Prove me wrong.