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Covid 101
COVID-19 is an airborne novel SARS-coronavirus. 'Novel' refers to not having been observed in an environment. SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which is a viral respiratory disease caused by SARS-coronaviruses. A coronavirus is any of a family of viruses which infect animals (including humans), and whose genomes consist of a single strand of RNA. COVID-19, specifically, is a novel coronavirus that is known to cause a viral respiratory disease (the acute phase) as well as vascular complications (vasculopathy) when the acute phase ends.