It's time to start talking about coronaviruses. Many people may remember the outbreak of SARS in 2003, which was a mysterious respiratory disease that was then linked to a coronavirus, which was called SARS-CoV. This was the first of three unusually pathogenic coronaviruses that culminated with the one responsible for the current pandemic, so let's get some important backstory.

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