Talk:SARS-CoV-2

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1. There is consensus that the terms "Wuhan virus" or "China virus" should not be used in the Lead of the article. The terms and their history can be discussed in the body of the article. Discussion permalink

An A bomb against SARS-CoV-2 scientist Stéphane Schmutz Foundation for the Universal Knowledge 4.9.2021 Oparine Haldane Stanley Miller Preis explained: As the first pieces of life appear in the water of the emerging Earth; we think that water can protect life and eradicate COVID-19. extension: MASTER ALARM OFF Jack Swigert Apollo 13 Explaination: In the prebiotic history water protect Life at its origins, so I think water can protect life nowadays against SARS-CoV-2. It is comfirmed by the hisory of the apparition of RNA in the prebiotic history. (SKYFALL COVID-19 Researches ("TOP SECRET") Stéphane Schmutz 30.12.2021)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 12 August 2021

Please add Template:Outdated to the "Infection and transmission" section. It reports only 2020 information. The idea of aerosol transmission is presented as not-yet-confirmed. There are 47 citations before the start of the "Reinfection" subsection: 1 dates from 2010, 41 date from 2020, and just 5 date from 2021. And of those 5, 2 are a case study of a specific person, 1 talks about animals that can get infected, and 2 talk about particles emitted during talking. Most or all items in this section should be relying on 2021 data, because the science is getting updated so fast through extensive research. 174.206.39.24 (talk) 11:15, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

 Done. will do, but I will also say that these statements probably need better WP:MEDRS, as "etiology" is explicitly covered under WP:BMI. To be plain, the statements may require a higher level of sourcing commiserate with scientific journal review articles published in topic-relevant venues. We may not be able to move as fast as the science does as a result. Of course this also means some of these sentences are definitely poorly sourced as it is, even the ones from the past. Appreciate you pointing this out, thank you.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 15:55, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

here are some links to find high quality MEDRS about this topic (SARS-CoV-2 transmission): Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL --Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 23:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Typo "Demark"

I'm sorry, if I'm using the talk page the wrong way, but since the article is protected and I couldn't make the edit myself, I would appreciate it, if an experienced member could just fix this little typo.

It's really self-explanatory, there's just a missing "n" in "Demark" that needs to be added. It's in the last sentence of the paragraph in chapter 4.1.1 (Phylogenetics -> Variants).

Thank you very much!

XLix (talk) 22:18, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

 Fixed. thanks--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 22:20, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is the virus that causes COVID-19, the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Like other coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 has four structural proteins, known by the letters S (spike), E (envelope), M (membrane), and N (nucleocapsid); the N protein holds the RNA genome, and the S, E, and M proteins together create the viral envelope. This colourised transmission electron micrograph shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a laboratory. The crown-like spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, derived from Latin corona, 'crown'.

Photograph credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories

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The first paragraph in the Epidemiology section is a near-duplicate to the previous paragraph (in the previous section). I believe it should be removed.

Typo in "Epidemiology" section

The "epidemiology" section start with "xVery few drugs" (erroneous "x") Technicolour-dreamboat (talk) 12:09, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks for the heads up.— Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 18:55, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Global Viral Mass

AFAIK there have been no estimations of the global viral mass of SARS‑CoV‑2, or the mass of a single virion for that matter. What are we dealing with here, a few kilos or what? kencf0618 (talk) 03:39, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

There is this estimation, but I'm unsure how relevant and meaningful the estimate is for the article. Bakkster Man (talk) 14:45, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 9 September 2021

In the lead, replace Virus with Emergent virus. 79.70.190.198 (talk) 08:30, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit extended-protected}} template. I think it's better to link to the actual virus article. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:35, 9 September 2021 (UTC)