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Chatterbox Corner: From Spring Commencement to Quarantined Commencement

As much as I wanted to believe this coronavirus pandemic was the same as the SARS outbreak in 2002, Swine Flu of 2009 and Ebola of 2014, it’s not.

This disease has been ever-changing and has prevented experts from getting a firm grasp of the situation at hand.

What was believed to be an “advanced version of the flu,” the coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) has symptoms ranging from extreme fever and chills to coughing and shortness of breath.

For comparative purposes, the definition of SARS was “a contagious and sometimes fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus.