Originally Posted by chrisl137

I was looking for some other information on the virus and came across this paper that reminded me of your reply. The authors estimate that at peak infection, each person has 10^9 to 10^11 coronavirus particles in their body. And they also note that if you do the obvious next calculation, at any given time there's probably less than 10 kg total of coronavirus circulating among all the humans on the planet. Possibly as little as 0.1 kg.

Pretty impressive for less than 10 kg of not-even-alive genetic material and protein wrapper to threaten a worldwide species like this.