Today’s Coronadiaries examines whether COVID-19 isn’t a virus, but an antibody We are the virus.

APRIL FOOLS! (though that’s definitely a column coming soon).

Today’s entry, instead, will have no grim news, just FactSlaps (bacteria edition):

• All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.
• The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
• There’re more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
• The “smell of rain” is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
• Mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
• Researchers found 1,458 new species of bacteria in belly buttons.
• Sweat itself is odorless. It’s the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces body odor.
• Chocolate has an anti-bacterial effect on the mouth and protects against tooth decay.
• Tap water has a shelf-life of 6 months, after which chlorine dissipates and bacteria starts to grow.
• When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.