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Using various reputable internet sites (CDC, PubMed, NCBI, etc.) or textbooks, describe the various attributes and answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Some questions might take some insight and thought. 1. What virus is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic that we are involved in? 2. What is the virus family name? 3. Describe the physical attributes of the virus: capsid symmetry, type of genome, enveloped or not enveloped, glycoproteins of interest, etc. 4. What diseases do these viruses usually cause, and what are their disease reservoirs? 5. What makes the COVID-19 virus so infectious? 6. Why would this be advantageous in their reservoir animal? 7. What are the mortality rates between the top five major outbreak countries? Why is there a difference? 8. How would you propose to contain the outbreak of COVID-19? What steps or measures would you use?

          Using various reputable internet sites (CDC, PubMed, NCBI, etc.) or textbooks, describe the various attributes and answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Some questions might take some insight and thought.

1. What virus is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic that we are involved in?
2. What is the virus family name?
3. Describe the physical attributes of the virus: capsid symmetry, type of genome, enveloped or not enveloped, glycoproteins of interest, etc.
4. What diseases do these viruses usually cause, and what are their disease reservoirs?
5. What makes the COVID-19 virus so infectious?
6. Why would this be advantageous in their reservoir animal?
7. What are the mortality rates between the top five major outbreak countries? Why is there a difference?
8. How would you propose to contain the outbreak of COVID-19? What steps or measures would you use?

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