https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2020/05/05/how-the-soap-and-crown-emoji-subtly-communicate-fears-and-advice-about-coronavirus/

In digital communication, where visual information often conveys key ideas in memorable, pithy and fun ways, emoji is king. And as our world has changed due to COVID-19, new ways of deploying emoji have sprung up in response.

While the microbe emoji was first approved in 2018, different technology providers render it in strikingly different ways. For instance, the Apple version most clearly resembles a virus, while the Microsoft version is blue and resembles a bacterium.According to data from the website Emojipedia, common ways of representing COVID-19 include the microbe emoji ? and more generally the face with medical mask emoji ?.