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What if a COVID-19 Vaccine Is Never Developed? What if a COVID-19 Vaccine Is Never Developed? Coronavirus is a whole family of viruses that have little spikes on the surface that look like a crown, which is how it got its name. You've probably heard of other sorts of coronavirus. There was the SARS coronavirus and the outbreak was in 2002. There was the MERS coronavirus, with an epidemic in 2012. And there are actually a lot of other types of coronavirus, but they don't have special names and they just cause the common cold. The virus we're dealing with is called SARS-COV-2 and the disease that it causes is coronavirus disease in 2019. Or COVID-19 for short. Bats are actually a natural reservoir for many viruses, so the virus can actually replicate inside the bat without making it sick and then the bat passes it on to other animals, and then finally that gets passed on to humans. And that is what happened in Wuhan, China. After the first person was infected, the v...