British mathematicians estimate corona virus all over the Earth if collected will fit in a can of soda measuring 330 mL. How to calculate it?
This calculation was made by Kit Yates, a scientist from Bath University. Initially, he made these calculations for the BBC broadcast, More or Less.
He admitted that initially he had no idea how to answer how much corona virus around the world. But then he thought of calculating how much SARS-CoV-2, the official name of the virus that causes COVID-19, circulating around the world.
Using statistical and epidemiological modeling, Yates got an estimate of the number of people infected each day around 3 million worldwide. Taken on average, there are about 1 billion to 100 billion virus particles in each person in the peak phase of infection.
Yates then used an estimate that the virus had a diameter of 80-120 nanometers. That means, the radius of SARS-CoV-2 is roughly 1,000 times thinner than a human hair.
Taking into account that the protein spike or crown on the Corona virus will create a gap, Yates got an estimate that all the Corona viruses in the world if collected were still less than the capacity of a 330 mL soda can.
“It is astonishing to think that all the troubles, annoyances, hardships and loss of life that have resulted in the past year could be just a few mouthfuls of the worst drink in history,” said Yates, writing on The Conversation.
Although only the size of a soda can, corona virus to date, it has infected more than 109 million people worldwide. More than 2.4 million deaths occurred due to infection with this virus.
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