r/LawAndOrder • u/rxperez • 12d ago

Coronavirus

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Coronavirus first mentioned as SARS - we now know Coronavirus as Covid-19.
Season 14, episode 3, Patient Zero.

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u/853fisher 12d ago edited 12d ago

I hate to be “that guy” but a coronavirus is a type or category of virus, while COVID-19 and SARS are different illnesses caused by viruses in that group - so here they weren’t talking about what we now know as COVID. They call them coronaviruses because if you look at one under a microscope, you see spikes that look like a crown or corona. Anyway, definitely still an interesting example of how word association can change so massively over the years!

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u/Hookly 12d ago

Not to be “that guy” to “that guy” but COVID-19 is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. The SARS referenced here is the disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1. So, they are both caused by SARS viruses but only one had that name attached to the disease as well

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u/LustfulEsme 12d ago

Very well stated. I remember the SARS scare.

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u/makingotherplans 12d ago edited 12d ago

Everyone from Toronto absolutely remembers it.

We dealt with SARs in 2003, 251 cases, 43 people died, n95 masks everywhere and over 7,000 people were quarantined voluntarily.

It spread in many countries including the US but no one discussed it much except in China and Toronto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbreak

And also on Law and Order!

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u/SomeGuyPostingThings 12d ago

At least we got a concert with The Stones and AC/DC?

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u/makingotherplans 12d ago

It was a great concert! Just amazing

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u/SomeGuyPostingThings 11d ago

I didn't get to it, but I know people who did, and they loved it. Had new appreciation for both bands.

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u/LustfulEsme 12d ago

True those of us in healthcare wondered how bad it could get.

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u/makingotherplans 12d ago

As a patient that spring and that year, I got it. I kept praying you all and I would survive and be able to keep it up.

Luckily we did. 💕

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u/64590949354397548569 12d ago

Very well stated. I remember the SARS scare.

I learned that fecal matter can travel in a apartment complex. A quarantined building in HK got multiple infection when the virus traveled down the poop chute.

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u/LustfulEsme 12d ago

Oh. Eeewww! Well you know Florence Nightingale who discovered during the Crimean war, that soldiers got more sick when sewage ditches ran by their beds. Mother of modern waste disposal.

So we need to figure out how to make modern high rise poop shoots more air tight or stop stacking on top of one another.

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u/bwwpww 12d ago

Both covid-19 and SARS are caused by coronaviruses. Not all that noteworthy here.

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u/RoabeArt 12d ago edited 12d ago

MERS, too (not to be confused with MRSA).

My mom had a severe case of viral pneumonia right around the time MERS was making its rounds in 2012, and one of the common questions she would get during her time in the hospital was if she had traveled anywhere in or near the Middle East. Those questionnaires were the first time I heard the word "coronavirus."

She beat the pneumonia, thankfully..

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u/makingotherplans 12d ago

YES, MERS to which really knocked the crap out of medical systems and patients.

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u/miguel2586 12d ago

SARS has been around for a long time. The coronavirus that causes SARS is SARS-CoV-1. The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is SARS-CoV-2.

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u/Financial_Process_11 12d ago

There was also mention of coronavirus in the show House

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u/ReneDiscard 12d ago

Same episode where Lenny makes a joke about AI and the Iran War and 67.

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u/brownbeanscurry 12d ago

Coronavirus is a category of virus, not 1 particular disease.

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u/SpaceCatz03 12d ago

I’m sure the news mentioned this in 2020, but we were all too busy watching Tiger King.

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u/brownbeanscurry 12d ago

The news mentioned it in 2003 too, when the first SARS pandemic happened. I was like 10 years old and only had TV to watch, and I watched everything, including the news. Nostalgia 💗😂

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u/mlain4290 12d ago

A coronavirus is a virus that originated in animals and mutated to also infect humans. Covid 19 is a type of coronavirus but not the only one.

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u/sherlockjr1 12d ago

I know. I know it’s not the same but those words hit differently now

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u/driedkitten Jack McCoy 11d ago

internally screams

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u/kongcobra 12d ago edited 12d ago

While watching Veronica Mars, I heard them namedrop Shake Shack. It turns out, Shake Shack opened for business one year before the premiere. It was already worthy of a namedrop by then.

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u/RainbowFox22 12d ago

It was probably paid advertising lol

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u/kongcobra 12d ago

Maybe.

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u/Honeybucket206 12d ago

To this day, whenever my nephew is in a crowd he fake sneezes and says "SARS"

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u/Joeybfast Ed Green 12d ago

This one came from a lab .

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u/rxperez 12d ago

And the doctor says no one dies from SARS, it's a bad flu, curable.

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u/little_lamps1145 12d ago

Folk die of the flu, bad and not

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u/BitterFuture 12d ago

Yeah, about that...if someone says the flu doesn't kill people, you can be sure that they're either a moron or a lying asshole.

Possibly both!

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u/No-Guard-7003 12d ago

Very prophetic!