Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/SARS-CoV-2 CDC illustration

SARS-CoV-2

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Original – To quote the CDC: "This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)."

Reason

Rather relevant right now, and the details are (presumably) accurate - it's by the CDC after all, visually appealing, and educational.

Articles in which this image appears

too many to count, but Coronavirus, List of epidemics, and Coronavirus disease 2019 will do for a start.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other seems to have at least one virus. We might want to spin it out.

Creator

Center for Disease Control: Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.7% of all FPs} 06:16, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
• Couldn't they have used focus stacking to get better sharpness? ;-)  Support --Janke | Talk 09:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
• Weak oppose Will support if a version without the synthetic depth of field can be found. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 10:18, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

• My comment above was in jest (note the ";-)"). In fact, the shallow DOF helps you better perceive the spherical shape. --Janke | Talk 10:35, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

• Comment – Is it just me, or is the perspective one would expect with a spherical object distorted? – Sca (talk) 14:19, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

• It depends on the virtual focal length of the generating software. Assuming it's rather long (like a few hundred micrometers ;-) I see no problem there. Also, this is the orthographic type of perspective you get with a telecentric lens. --Janke | Talk 20:16, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

• Support: Highly informative and high EV. Fits all the criteria on WP:WIAFP. In my opinion, the colors used and the virus itself do not make for an aesthetically pleasing image. However, that's not a criterion for FP.  Bait30  ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 20:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:53, 20 December 2020 (UTC)