The reputation of the new coronavirus for messing with scientists’ plans has taken a truly creepy turn.
Researchers discovered that when Covid-19 infects a human cell, it sets off a ghoulish transformation. The cell doesn’t die right away. Obeying instructions from the virus, the newly infected cell sprouts multipronged tentacles studded with viral particles.
These sick zombie cells appear to be using those streaming strands to reach their healthy neighbours.
The tentacles appear to bore into the cells’ bodies and inject their viral venom directly into those cells’ genetic command centres – thus creating another zombie.
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