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Re:Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a n... by sampo on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:46AM (#25578963)
> in my mind the spike proteins that are generated by an actual infection don't typically leave the cytoplasm detached from the rest of the virus

Virus takes over the cell, makes the cell to manufacture components of the virus and to assemble viruses, until this disrupts the cell so bad that the cell dies and typically bursts. Surely at this point, not only assembled viruses, but also components at different stages of production, are released?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_viruses#Life-c...

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Re:Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a n... by jcims on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:23AM (#25580779)
Thank you. I knew this at some level but this (amazing) animation of HIV got me on a track of thinking that the viruses have a mechanism for exiting the cell without destroying it:

https://vimeo.com/260291607

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Re:Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a n... by sampo on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:29AM (#25581474)
Like the Wikipedia article says, most viruses make the cell burst. Some, like HIV, have less destructive methods. I could not find how SARS-CoV-2 does it.
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