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A Pew Research survey conducted from 20 April to 26 April found that 69% of U.S. respondents believed that the news media have covered the outbreak "very well" or "somewhat well" and that the number of U.S. respondents who believed the media have exaggerated COVID-19 risks had somewhat decreased. [60]
The term variant of concern (VOC) for SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is a category used for variants of the virus where mutations in their spike protein receptor binding domain (RBD) substantially increase binding affinity (e.g., N501Y) in RBD-hACE2 complex (genetic data), while also being linked to rapid spread in human populations ...
During the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China, various names were used for the virus; some names used by different sources included "the coronavirus" or "Wuhan coronavirus". [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended "2019 novel coronavirus" (2019-nCoV) [ 5 ] [ 29 ] as the provisional name for the virus.
Coronavirus diseases are caused by viruses in the coronavirus subfamily, a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, the group of viruses cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal.
Coronavirus disease 2019, a contagious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19 pandemic, a coronavirus pandemic that began in December 2019 and ended in May 2023; Variants of SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant, a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first identified in the United Kingdom in 2020
The transmission of COVID-19 is the passing of coronavirus disease 2019 from person to person. COVID-19 is mainly transmitted when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets/aerosols and small airborne particles containing the virus. Infected people exhale those particles as they breathe, talk, cough, sneeze, or sing.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico was an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 , a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . It is part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Puerto Rico started addressing the risks of an outbreak in early 2020.
Coronaviridae is a family of enveloped, positive-strand RNA viruses which infect amphibians, birds, and mammals.Commonly referred to as coronaviruses in the English language, the family coronaviridae includes the subfamilies Letovirinae and Orthocoronavirinae; the latter also known as coronavirinae.