Source: /cirosantilli/covid-19

= COVID-19
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COVID happens in two stages:
* viral infection
* <inflammatory> phase, where the body takes over, and sometimes harms itself. It seems that people are not generally contagious at this point?

This distinction is one of the reasons why separating the virus name (SARS-CoV-2) from the disease makes sense: the disease is much broader than the viral infection.