SARS-B

SARS-B is a strain of SARS originating in Hong Kong. It is caused by SARS-CoV-2. Between October 2019 and March 2021, a pandemic of this disease resulted in 22412620 cases and 2960163 deaths (13.2% fatality rate). This disease likely came from bats and is traced through birds to humans.

Common symptoms include a fever in 98% of cases, a dry cough in 70%, fatigue in 45%, shortness of breath in 42% (usually in worse cases) and myalgia in 35%.

25% of people who get this disease require hospitalisation, and around 15-20% of people who survive have permanent lung damage.

2019-2021 pandemic
During November 2019, people began to get sick with an unknown virus. On the 23rd of December, the virus was discovered, and it was named 2019-nCoV. In early January 2020, it was renamed to SARS-B, and declared a PHEIC (SARS is automatically a PHEIC).