A member asked:

So just a coriousity why does everything you read on the virus say that even if the virus is not visible you still can catch it?

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Dr. Matt Wachsman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Viruses are very sm.: They grow inside of cells and they use the cells' own machinery to make more virus. Since they have to be much smaller than a cell, that means they are going to be too small to see and indeed too small to see with even conventional light microscopes.

Answered 5/23/2020

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