WTF. I thought the US @NIH wasn't allowing dangerous #GainOfFunction research on deadly viruses, especially the #COVID virus, but that's exactly what this group at Boston University just did. They created a potentially deadly, novel, coronavirus. Yikes. https://t.co/djyk0aKcuT
— Steven Salzberg 💙💛 (@StevenSalzberg1) October 18, 2022
Hopefully the extra deadly covid made by The Science at Boston University won’t escape from a lab “by accident”.
I rest assured in knowing The Science would never allow that.
If it’s let out “by accident” surely The Science already has a vaccine, since they know the pathogen.
— Chris Paul (@imyourmoderator) October 18, 2022
The first coronavirus had the exact same death rate as the flu, suspiciously.
This new one is going to kill basically everyone. Real news. We’re all totally doomed, completely.
Researchers at Boston University say they have developed a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate following a series of similar experiments first thought to have started the global pandemic that began in China.
The variant, a combination of Omicron and the original virus in Wuhan, killed 80% of the mice infected with it, the university said. When mice were only exposed to Omicron, they experienced mild symptoms.
The research was conducted by a team of scientists from Florida and Boston at the school’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories.
They extracted the spike protein from Omicron and attached it with the strain first detected at the onset of the pandemic that began in Wuhan, China. They then documented how the mice reacted to the hybrid strain.
“In…mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80 percent,” they wrote in a research paper.
The new strain has five times more infectious virus particles than the Omicron variant, researchers said.
In other news, Bill Gates is now just taking the piss.
He’s taking the piss, mate.
What’s next for our foundation? I’m particularly excited about what the next year could mean for one of the best buys in global health: vaccines. https://t.co/MbjNWPEl5l
— Bill Gates (@BillGates) December 19, 2019