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    Boston University researchers claim to have developed new, more lethal COVID strain in lab

    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.
    https://www.fox29.com/news/boston-un...-strain-in-lab




    What the heck are they thinking? This is probably how the original COVID came into being, moronic scientists playing around with viruses and let it escape. All it takes is one careless researcher and we have a whole new more deadly pandemic on the loose.

    They need to shut this down and fine the University.


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    more [bolding is mine]:

    Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen.

    There is no evidence the work, performed under biosecurity level 3 precautions in BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, was conducted improperly or unsafely. In fact, it was approved by an internal biosafety review committee and Boston’s Public Health Commission, the university said Monday night.

    But it has become apparent that the research team did not clear the work with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which was one of the funders of the project. The agency indicated it is going to be looking for some answers as to why it first learned of the work through media reports.

    Emily Erbelding, director of NIAID’s division of microbiology and infectious diseases, said the BU team’s original grant applications did not specify that the scientists wanted to do this precise work. Nor did the group make clear that it was doing experiments that might involve enhancing a pathogen of pandemic potential in the progress reports it provided to NIAID.
    https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/17/...ment-scrutiny/

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    • #3
      They're stupid. And don't forget, they're stupid.


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      • #4
        Or. It's exactly what they want. To wipe out humanity.


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        • #5
          Originally posted by mossrose View Post
          Or. It's exactly what they want. To wipe out humanity.
          Sounds like it. an 80% death rate? That's apocalypse level disease. But hey, just think of how much better the planet would be without 80% of the people mucking it up!

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            Originally posted by Sparko View Post

            Sounds like it. an 80% death rate? That's apocalypse level disease. But hey, just think of how much better the planet would be without 80% of the people mucking it up!
            Yuh!

            I think the ones who do this kind of stuff should go first!


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            • #7
              I wonder when this will 'accidently' escape the lab?

              Boston University Defends Controversial Study on COVID Hybrid Strain With ’80 Percent’ Mortality Rate in Mice

              Boston University issued a statement Tuesday defending its research of a COVID-19 Omicron strain when they took the variant’s spike protein and attached it to the original COVID-19 strain, leading to a higher mortality rate in a certain species of mice, triggering concern among lawmakers.

              “The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor-binding motif… while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80 percent,” the preprint study said.

              https://www.theepochtimes.com/boston...=BonginoReport
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                Originally posted by seer View Post
                I wonder when this will 'accidently' escape the lab?
                Sparko started a thread on this a few hours ago: https://theologyweb.com/campus/forum...hey-ever-learn

                Combine?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                  Sparko started a thread on this a few hours ago: https://theologyweb.com/campus/forum...hey-ever-learn

                  Combine?
                  Yes please...
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by seer View Post
                    I wonder when this will 'accidently' escape the lab?
                    If it does, we know where it came from for sure this time. No way to pretend innocence.

                    What scares me is how many other labs are doing the same thing around the world? We all know that is probably how COVID started in the first place.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Sparko View Post

                      Sounds like it. an 80% death rate? That's apocalypse level disease. But hey, just think of how much better the planet would be without 80% of the people mucking it up!
                      It was definitely stupid, but on the death rate, see this Substack by Alex Berenson.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by NorrinRadd View Post

                        It was definitely stupid, but on the death rate, see this Substack by Alex Berenson.
                        He seems to have misread the paper.

                        It says the Omicron/wild-type Sars-Cov-2 combination the researchers created is more lethal than Omicron.

                        However, it ALSO says the Omicron/wild type virus is LESS lethal than original wild type. Neither of those findings should be a surprise. Omicron is much less dangerous than the original Sars-Cov-2, so blending the two together produces a virus with intermediate lethality.


                        They didn't "blend" the two viruses and come up with one with "intermediate lethality." They took the original virus body and added Omicron spike proteins to it. Omicron is many times more infectious than the original was. The original virus was more deadly than omicron. Together they become more deadly and more infectious. Thus the 80% death rate.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Sparko View Post

                          He seems to have misread the paper.

                          It says the Omicron/wild-type Sars-Cov-2 combination the researchers created is more lethal than Omicron.

                          However, it ALSO says the Omicron/wild type virus is LESS lethal than original wild type. Neither of those findings should be a surprise. Omicron is much less dangerous than the original Sars-Cov-2, so blending the two together produces a virus with intermediate lethality.


                          They didn't "blend" the two viruses and come up with one with "intermediate lethality." They took the original virus body and added Omicron spike proteins to it. Omicron is many times more infectious than the original was. The original virus was more deadly than omicron. Together they become more deadly and more infectious. Thus the 80% death rate.
                          Didn't he also note that the wild version had a 100% mortality rate in mice? I believe he linked to the actual paper, but I did not follow the link. He gave the impression that both the 80% and the 100% applied to mice.
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                            Did the mice get any medical care?
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
                              Did the mice get any medical care?
                              Yes, if euthanization is considered medical care.

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