COVID-19 is a hacker. Like all viruses, SARS-CoV-2 is a clever exploitation of our body’s immune system, subverting the normal operation of that system at the expense of our general health and the lives of over 6 million people worldwide. HIV is another hacker. It infects T-helper white blood cells in our body, inserting its own DNA into the cell’s normal DNA, and then replicating inside the cell.
