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Boston Lab creates a "supervariant" COVID strain that is a combination between the original Wuhan wild type and Omicron - 80% kill rate on lab mice (www.bostonherald.com)

posted 2 years ago by WhitePhoenix 2 years ago by WhitePhoenix +49 / -1

Boston University COVID researchers combine omicron spike protein with original virus, test strain on mice

Boston University COVID researchers have combined the omicron variant spike protein with the original virus, testing the created strain on mice “to help fight against future pandemics,”…

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– Grumman 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

No. It's only got an 80% kill rate on mice engineered to be particularly susceptible to COVID - the original COVID has a 100% kill rate on those same mice. They didn't make a more lethal COVID, they made a COVID that combines the worst traits of the original and Omicron.

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