Scary red or icky green? We can't say what colour coronavirus is and dressing it up might feed fears
- Written by Simon Weaving, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Industries, University of Newcastle
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Images of the latest coronavirus have become instantly recognisable, often vibrantly coloured and floating in an opaque background. In most representations, the shape of the virus is the same – a spherical particle with spikes, resembling an alien invader.
But there’s little consensus about the colour: images of the virus...