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Coronavirus Family: COVID-19, MERS & SARS

I am sharing a table of the coronavirus family which are the diseases of COVID-19,

MERS and SARS. We could see the similarity in SARS-CoV-2 and SARS in which
they actually shared the same receptor binding which is the Angiotensin

Converting Enzyme 2. If you look at what happened to the lung in these 3 diseases,
it showed that they have a similar pattern in which they were demonstrated on the
chest computerized tomography (CT) scan. These three diseases will present with

bilateral patchy shadows or ground glass opacity in the lungs.

Table 1: Comparison between COVID-19, MERS and SARS