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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: WebMD - What Is the History of Coronavirus? | Sep 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Coronaviridae. | Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised and updated. | May 05, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Yale Medicine - Coronavirus. | Feb 12, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Healthdirect - About coronaviruses. | Jan 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - Introduction to Anthropology - What Is Religion? | Sep 06, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cell Press - Heliyon - Molecular biology of coronaviruses: current knowledge. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: eScholarship - Genomic evolution of the Coronaviridae family. | Sep 09, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Nature Reviews Microbiology - Coronavirus biology and replication: implications for SARS-CoV-2. | Jul 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2. | Mar 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Coronaviruses: An Overview of Their Replication and Pathogenesis. | Apr 24, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Government of Western Australia - Perth Children's Hospital - What is Coronavirus? | Mar 03, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic Kids - Facts about coronavirus. | Mar 02, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic Kids - Facts about coronavirus. | Mar 02, 2022 | ||
| Added information about the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. | Jan 31, 2022 | ||
| Inserted a space in “numerous businesses.” | Nov 29, 2021 | ||
| Added information on vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. | Nov 16, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mayo Clinic - Coronavirus Infection by Race: What's Behind the Health Disparities? | Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 23, 2021 | ||
| New media added. | Jan 28, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Coronavirus Disease 2019. | Aug 27, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) - Health Equity Considerations & Racial & Ethnic Minority Groups. | Aug 27, 2020 | ||
| Added information on travel restrictions and stay-at-home guidelines implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Apr 20, 2020 | ||
| Added an illustration of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. | Apr 10, 2020 | ||
| Added mention that in March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak a pandemic. | Mar 16, 2020 | ||
| Updated information on MERS fatality rate. | Mar 06, 2020 | ||
| Added information on SARS-CoV-2. | Mar 04, 2020 | ||
| Added information on Wuhan coronavirus. | Jan 29, 2020 | ||
| Updated information on the mortality rate associated with MERS coronavirus. Also added mention of camels as a possible reservoir for the virus. | Sep 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): How It Spreads. | Aug 26, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): How It Spreads. | Aug 26, 2013 | ||
| Added information on novel coronavirus, a new type of coronavirus first detected in 2012. | May 24, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): How It Spreads. | May 13, 2013 | ||
| New article added. | Feb 19, 2010 |
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