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Özdemir, Öner. “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Diagnosis and Management.” Erciyes Medical Journal / Erciyes Tip Dergisi, vol. 42, no. 3, Sept. 2020, pp. 242–247. EBSCOhost, doi:10.14744/etd.2020.63904.
This article that I find goes into depth on how covid-19 works there are different strains of Covid-19 the one that seems to only goes for humans and other mammals is called COVS a- and b- all forms of Covid-19 shares a good amount of DNA with SARS that is where we get the respiratory symptoms from. But there is one strain of Covid-19 that holds 95% bat DNA Its called SARS-CoV-2 this is the other strain of Covid-19 that attacks humans and mammals and is highly resisted to the medicine we use so far. But bats weren’t the only animals to have covid-19 snakes and other animals I think this helped contribute to why covid-19 is so strong and hard to fight off. The drugs they use to somewhat treat covid-19 used in Russia and china is called Arbidol it is a anti viral medicine it doesn’t work that well only help weakening the symptoms only a little bit its not a effective way of treating the virus but its better than nothing.
“Human CoVs consists of α- CoVs (229E and NL63), β- CoVs (OC43 and HKU1), the Middle East respiratory
syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and SARS-CoV (5). The genomic and phylogenic analysis showed
that the CoV causing COVID-19 is a β- CoV in the identical subgenus as the SARS virus, but in a different clade
(5). On 7th January, the virus was recognized as a CoV that had >95% homology with the bat CoV and >70%” The reason why I picked these lines from the article is because it helps give us a better idea on why covid-19 is so hard to cure and get rid of. One because there are many different strains of Covid-19 each similar but a little different it makes you wonder if you find the cure for one strain will it kill and affect the other strains and it shows how resist this virus is.
