"Cu-deficient humans show an exceptional susceptibility to infections due to the decreased number and function of these blood cells. Besides, Cu can kill several infectious viruses such as bronchitis virus, poliovirus, human immunodeficiency virus type 1(HIV-1), other enveloped or nonenveloped, single- or double-stranded DNA and RNA viruses. Moreover, Cu has the potent capacity of contact killing of several viruses, including SARS‐CoV‐2."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199671/
"The compounds, he thinks, could work like this: SARS-CoV-2, like all coronaviruses, is studded with spike proteins—necessary for entry into a host cell—resembling the spikes on a crown. These proteins require metals like zinc to function, and they steal these metals from our own cells. If instead of stealing useful metals like zinc, Johnson could deliver toxic copper to the virus’s spike proteins, it could be rendered inoperable."
https://research.arizona.edu/stories/could-copper-disable-virus-behind-covid-19
"Heavy metals including gold and silver are antibacterial, but copper’s specific atomic makeup gives it extra killing power, Keevil says. Copper has a free electron in its outer orbital shell of electrons that easily takes part in oxidation-reduction reactions (which also makes the metal a good conductor). As a result, Schmidt says, it becomes a “molecular oxygen grenade.” Silver and gold don’t have the free electron, so they are less reactive."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/copper-virus-kill-180974655/
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