Scientists have uncovered how the coronavirus binds with human respiratory cells and hijacks them. To infect a human host, viruses must be able to gain entry into individual human cells. They use those cells' machinery to produce copies of themselves, which then spill out and spread to new cells. This discovery comes as a team of Canadian scientists has successfully isolated and replicated the coronavirus. Researchers from the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, University of Toronto and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, made the breakthrough in a lab using samples taken from two Canadian coronavirus patients.

Source: Fox News March 14, 2020 12:11 UTC