An expert from a UK expert reveals that the value of ‘just a few mouthfuls’ of virus grains drives global coronavirus pandemic infection.
All the viruses that cause COVID that are currently circulating in the world could easily be woven into a single cola, according to calculations by British mathematicians whose sum is ‘reveals just how much damage is caused by minuscule viral particles.
Using global rates of new pandemic diseases, along with estimates of viral load, Bath University mathematics expert Kit Yates worked out that there are nearly two quintillion – or two billion – in the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV2, in the world at one time.
Detailing the steps in his numbers in an article published on The Conversation news website, Yates said he used a SARS-CoV-2 diameter – at an average of about 100 nanometers , or 100 billion meters – and then extracted the volume of the spherical virus.
The total number of SARS-CoV-2 in the world could be inside a can of cola.https: //t.co/T6KbBrDi1z
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– Kit Yates (@Kit_Yates_Maths) February 10, 2021
Even taking into account the spike proteins protruding the coronavirus and the fact that the spherical grains leave gaps when they accumulate together, the total number is still less than in a single 330 milliliter cola. (11.16 ounces), he said.
“It is surprising to think that all the trouble, unrest, hardship and loss of life caused by over the past year could be just a few words of what would undoubtedly be the case. worst drink in history, ”Yates said in his article.
More than 2.34 million people have died from COVID-19 to date, and nearly 107 million confirmed cases worldwide, according to data collected by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.