Boston University researchers develop COVID strain with 80% kill rate in lab mice


WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

Havent we determined a downside?

Watch this be the next pandemic.

Probably a "Back at you" virus we could infect China with, for giving us the original COVID. All funded by the US government, no doubt.
 

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

Havent we determined a downside?

Watch this be the next pandemic.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Probably a "Back at you" virus we could infect China with, for giving us the original COVID. All funded by the US government, no doubt.
Yeah, but unleashing something like that would screw over the whole planet. There is no way to limit it to national borders, all it would take is a single individual who is a carrier to land here. While I kind of understand the logic behind gain of function studies, I think we're better off just waiting for the next jump and dealing with it then. The chances of a 1918-type virus are real but they're also EXTREMELY low.
If we keep effing around with these things, one WILL ESCAPE. Millions will die from sheer stupidity.
 
Yeah, but unleashing something like that would screw over the whole planet. There is no way to limit it to national borders, all it would take is a single individual who is a carrier to land here. While I kind of understand the logic behind gain of function studies, I think we're better off just waiting for the next jump and dealing with it then. The chances of a 1918-type virus are real but they're also EXTREMELY low.
If we keep effing around with these things, one WILL ESCAPE. Millions will die from sheer stupidity.
we've been fucking with the wrong things for decades. humans never learn.
 
Yeah, but unleashing something like that would screw over the whole planet. There is no way to limit it to national borders, all it would take is a single individual who is a carrier to land here. While I kind of understand the logic behind gain of function studies, I think we're better off just waiting for the next jump and dealing with it then. The chances of a 1918-type virus are real but they're also EXTREMELY low.
If we keep effing around with these things, one WILL ESCAPE. Millions will die from sheer stupidity.
Does anyone think Democrats care if they start another pandemic if it keeps them in power?
 
Ten years ago so-called conspiracy theorists exactly predicted SCAMdemic CONvid-1984, the 'vaccine', boosters, lockdowns, social distancing and medical tyranny. It had been exactly fulfilled now. But the most terrible prediction was after gullible fooled sheeple get 'vaccinated' it loses own immune system completely. Thereafter comes the True Virus which kills all 'vaccinated'. It looks like the showtime begins.

The recently identified, globally predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (BA.1) is highly transmissible, even in fully vaccinated individuals, and causes attenuated disease compared with other major viral variants recognized to date17. The Omicron spike (S) protein, with an unusually large number of mutations, is considered the major driver of these phenotypes3,8. We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant. The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor-binding motif (RBM), yet unlike naturally occurring Omicron, efficiently replicates in cell lines and primary-like distal lung cells. In K18-hACE2 mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80%. This indicates that while the vaccine escape of Omicron is defined by mutations in S, major determinants of viral pathogenicity reside outside of S.

 

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