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. 2022 Feb 1;10(1):e00922. doi: 10.1002/prp2.922

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Repeated SARS‐CoV‐2 self‐assembly at scale drives the vulnerability of the complex and lethality of the simple. Illustration of the difference in scale and hence complexity between a human cell and a single SARS‐CoV‐2 virion. It shows that populations provide the platform to facilitate the repeated self‐assembly at scale of SARS‐CoV‐2. The number of cells estimated to be present in a human is of the order of 37 trillion. 8 The diameter of a single SARS‐CoV‐2 is approximately 100 nm 9 or about a 1000 times smaller than the diameter of an average human cell (100 µm)