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To: ETCM
While there are many viruses that cause the common cold, only 4 are coronaviruses, ...

There are only 3 other coronaviruses known to infect humans, ...

That sounds like a contradiction.

23 posted on 04/03/2020 8:56:58 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: TigersEye
That sounds like a contradiction.

Maybe I just worded my post poorly. There are only 7 coronaviruses known to infect humans. 4 of them cause common cold, 1 causes MERS, 1 causes SARS and 1 causes COVID-19 (AKA SARS2).

There are many other viruses that ALSO cause common cold, but they are not coronaviruses. Most are rhinoviruses.

26 posted on 04/03/2020 9:10:56 PM PDT by ETCM
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