Gamers are skilled at saving fictional worlds from virtual bad guys, but some players are now using their platform and skills in a real-world battle: helping scientists fight COVID-19.

And as John Hua discovered for The New Reality, there are two Canadians at the centre of it all.

For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/8604599/how-gamers-help-covid-19-fight/

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