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How covid-19 could become as mild as a common cold

How covid-19 could become as mild as a common cold

21 January 2021

As the new coronavirus evolves, it could follow the same path as other coronaviruses we live with already, becoming far less deadly in the future
What four coronaviruses from history can tell us about covid-19

What four coronaviruses from history can tell us about covid-19

29 April 2020

Four coronaviruses cause around a quarter of all common colds, but each was probably deadly when it first made the leap to humans. We can learn a lot from what happened next

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