We've seen that COVID symbol for most of the year. Here it its official illustration with key parts labelled.
Who is the blue one? That's measles. Very similar.
These were created by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to show structure. They reveal ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.
"Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. In this view, the protein particles E, S, and M, also located on the outer surface of the particle, have all been labeled as well. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)."
The COVID picture showed up everywhere. Being a pandemic, it needed to be identifiable right away. I looked through the CDC site's inventory of images of diseases. If you want to check them out, here's the LINK. And here's the full resource library of various images HERE.
Did you consider getting a decoration for your tree based on virus decorations? There's everything - virus, masked Santa, toilet paper, first responder, hand sanitizer, zoom meeting, lysol wipes, quarantine baking, puppy love... The article/pictures are HERE.
I liked this one below with most of the elements in one decoration. I predict we will be putting these on the tree in years to come - it will stand up to the pickle and the spider web as enduring Christmas mythology.
Here are Millie's Christmas pictures. I didn't take these - they were done at the dog training school in Beamsville.
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