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Also he asked if a vaccine is just dead flu cells aren't there enough dead SARS-CoV-2 cells out now that we could inject them in to some people? It's my understanding a virion isn't really alive or dead, it simply exists or not? Is it even correct to call it a cell? At this point I told him its a go...

The appropriate explanation depends on the individual 12 year old concerned. Given the level of questions posed I would assume he's an intelligent lad, here are a couple of additional references that are most likely the appropriate level for anyone looking to learn about the science behind F@H. As ...

Project 14236 & 14201 both have same number of 453,348 atoms... https://stats.foldingathome.org/project?p=14236 simply says Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) proteins. These are high-priority projects to simulate the proteins of the COVID-19. Do we know which proteins? All of them...

I've recruited my son's PC to help with covid-19, but I really can't explain what it is doing. Can somebody dumb it down for me? Also how many atoms are in the spike? How many spikes are on a single SARS-CoV-2 virion? How many atoms does it take to make one of these virons? We really have no idea wh...