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Ptah

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Tue Jun 2, 2020, 12:48 AM Jun 2020

Novel Coronavirus Attacks Humanity - Astronomy Picture of the Day



Humanity is under attack. The attack is not from large tentacle-flailing aliens, but from invaders so small they can barely be seen, and so strange they are not even clearly alive. All over planet Earth, the human home world, DNA-based humans are being invaded by the RNA-based SARS-CoV2. The virus, which creates a disease known as COVID-19, specializes in reprogramming human cells into zombies that manufacture and release copies of itself. Pictured here is a high magnification image of a human cell covered by attacking novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2 (orange).


https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200602.html
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Novel Coronavirus Attacks Humanity - Astronomy Picture of the Day (Original Post) Ptah Jun 2020 OP
K&R. nt tblue37 Jun 2020 #1
Confusing. Is that a picture of SARS or COVID-19? BamaRefugee Jun 2020 #2
WHO refers to SARS-Cov2 as COVID-19, to avoid confusion with SARS. nilram Jun 2020 #3
Thanks BamaRefugee Jun 2020 #4
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