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COVID-19: Background, Infection, Spreading, And Future Guess

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    This new decade started with lots of disasters such as huge forest fires in Australia and Ukraine, strong earthquakes and more like this. However, a disaster certainly is the worst in 2020 that is SARS-CoV-2 (also known as COVID-19)    COVID-19 is part of the virus family. There are several parts of viruses with this family like SARS and MERS. In 2002-2003, SARS appeared in the world. It infected 8.000 people and killed 800 people. In 2012, MERS appeared like SARS worldwide. It infected 2500 people and killed 900 people.    COVID-19 is a developed version of other old viruses. General idea is that this virus appeared in a wet market in Wuhan with pangolins and bats. Unlike others, it spreads fast and it has 3 types of unusual proteins; Spikes (S) protein, Membrane (M) protein, and Envelope (E) protein. Spikes are really important for this virus because they are used as a key to get inside a cell in our body.       When it g...