Coronaviruses

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round magenta objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Credit: NIAID-RML

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A medical worker handles samples for nucleic acid test at Weishi Medical Laboratory on March 4 in Changsha, China.

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Downtown San Antonio on 27 January 2014. Image: Jonathan Cutrer / Wikimedia Commons

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A medical team transfers a patient to Jin Yintan hospital in Wuhan, China on January 17, 2020. Image: Getty

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