All the COVID-causing virus circulating in the world right now could easily fit inside a single cola can, according to a calculation by a British mathematician whose sum exposes how much devastation is caused by miniscule viral particles https://reut.rs/36ZRcDv  by @kkelland 1/4

Using global rates of new infections with the pandemic disease, coupled with estimations of viral load, Bath University mathematician Kit Yates worked out there are around two quintillion - or two billion billion - SARS-CoV-2 virus particles in the world at any one time 2/4

Detailing the steps in his calculations, Yates said he used the diameter of SARS-CoV-2 - at an average of about 100 nanometers, or 100 billionths of a meter - and then figured out the volume of the spherical virus 3/4

Even accounting for the coronavirus’ projecting spike proteins and the fact that the spherical particles will leave gaps when stacked together, the total is still less than in a single 330 milliliter cola can, he said. Read the full story: https://reut.rs/36ZRcDv  4/4