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by kalium_xyz 2301 days ago
The search results are probably flooded, if you need good info look for anything from before the resent outbreak. Its on the wikipedia page for common cold, I think I got the factoid when I was searching google patents for coronavirus (might be interesting to check out as well) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Viruses
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I don't think coronavirus is an integrating retrovirus? It's an RNA virus for sure, but I haven't ever heard of it causing genome integration, and it would probably be a lot more dangerous (ability to cause cancer for instance) if it did?