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Virus would fit in a soft drink can – The West Australian
A British mathematician has worked out that all of the coronavirus now circulating in the world would fit inside a soft drink can.
All the COVID-causing virus circulating in the world right now could fit inside a soft drink can, according to a calculation by a British mathematician whose sum exposes just how much devastation is caused by miniscule viral particles.
Using global rates of new infections with the pandemic disease, coupled with estimations of viral load, Bath University maths expert Kit Yates worked out there are around two quintillion – or two billion billion – SARS-CoV-2 virus particles in the world at any one…
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