Seriously, why in the world would anyone want to try and make a MORE deadly strain of COVID?
One would think that after the last two years of being cooped up and having all our freedoms stripped away that no one wants to make one worse, but here we are.
That is why when I came across this article, my jaw dropped.
It appears that there are American universities that are creating more deadly batches of COVID.
Yeah, this cannot be good.
I am sure some know-it-all will come along and tell me they have to do this in order to find a cure or something like that. But in this day and age when fewer and fewer Americans trust the government or these so-called “experts” after all we’ve been through and all the mistakes, misinformation, and downright lies of the past two years, I will stand by my claim that creating more “deadly forms” of COVID with an 80 percent “kill rate” isn’t the best idea, and I have a feeling a lot of people will agree with me on this one.
Daily Mail reported:
US researchers have developed a new lethal Covid strain in a laboratory – echoing the type of experiments many fears started the pandemic.
The mutant variant — which is a hybrid of Omicron and the original Wuhan virus — killed 80 percent of mice infected with it at Boston University.
When a similar group of rodents was exposed to the standard Omicron strain, however, they all survived and only experienced ‘mild’ symptoms.
The scientists also infected human cells with the hybrid variant and found it was five times more infectious than Omicron. This suggests the man-made virus might be the most contagious form yet.
It will no doubt surprise many Americans that such experiments continue to go on in the US despite concerns similar studies may have led to the global Covid outbreak.
Covid first began spreading from a wet market in Wuhan, China, about eight miles from a similar high-security virology laboratory that manipulated bat coronaviruses.
Chinese scientists were found to have wiped crucial databases and stifled independent investigations into the facility’s links to the pandemic.
In the new research, which has not been peer-reviewed, a team of researchers from Boston and Florida extracted Omicron’s spike protein — the unique structure that binds to and invades human cells.
It has always been present but it has become more evolved over time. Omicron has dozens of mutations in its spike protein that made it so infectious.
Researchers attached Omicron’s spike protein to the original wildtype strain that first emerged in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic.
The researchers looked at how mice fared under the new hybrid strain compared to the original Omicron variant.
Writing in the paper, they said: ‘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 said it signaled that while the spike protein is responsible for infectivity, changes to other parts of its structure determine its deadliness.
The scientists also looked at the different strains’ effects on human lung cells that were grown in the lab.
They found that the original Covid strain produced high levels of infectious virus particles, and the new hybrid strain produced five times more infectious particles than Omicron.
The scientists admit the hybrid virus would be unlikely to be as deadly in real humans as it was in mice.
This sounds very ghoulish.
