Would this become a pandemic virus? An aerial photo shows excavators at the site of a hospital being built to treat coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 24, 2020. Paradoxical as it may sound for a pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2 was not particularly virulent — meaning, it didn’t sicken people the way deadlier viruses such as SARS1, MERS or Ebola did. 5, Vander Heide noticed another alarming pattern: that lung damage was similar in both coronavirus positive and negative patients. Postmortems, when they are written, will note that experts had been warning of a viral pandemic for many years.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2021 12:00 UTC