Coronavirus is a killer, but this artist won't reduce it to a cartoon villain
For weeks, we have seen the same image of the coronavirus, a gray sphere studded with red spikes that looks like a forest of surrealist trees growing on a dead planet. The rendering was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and can be downloaded from its Public Health Image Library. The spikes, which can also be seen when the virus is looked at with an electron microscope, are what gives the virus its characteristic corona.
