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the corona virus (similar to the HI virus) has an envelope which is a lipid bilayer, there are viruses without an envelope. Now you may think that a virus with
by wirrbel 7y ago
the corona virus (similar to the HI virus) has an envelope which is a lipid bilayer, there are viruses without an envelope. Now you may think that a virus with an envelope is more stable than viruses without, but the contrary is the case. once the bilayer tears, the virus is dysfunctional.
Also, what is not always talked about in the media currently is, that not all viruses are replicated functional. In fact, a large fraction of viruses produced are not capable of infecting a cell in the first place due to replication errors, mutations, etc.
- whatshisface 7y ago>what is not always talked about in the media currently is, that not all viruses are replicated functional. In fact, a large fraction of viruses produced are not capable of infecting a cell in the first place due to replication errors, mutations, etc. I agree that people aren't writing news articles about that, but why is it noteworthy that they're not? It doesn't matter if only 1% of the virus particles on a surface are infectious if there are millions of particles.