Recently, the news about Boston University creating a new type of virus became a red-hot topic. It is said that the virus has a lethality rate of 80 percent. Is it true?
The news spread as a study done by Boston University was published as a preprint on Oct. 14. But it isn’t as scary as people think, because the data is from animal models, not from human trials. However, I still disagree with this type of “gain-of-function” research because it brings a lot of unpredictable risks.
It killed 8 out of 10 mice which were bred to be unusually susceptible to covid, so the 80% part is true. How much that generalized to humans is a different matter.
...if it is half as lethal as the study, then that would still be devastating....
To the mice that were bred to have no immunity. However, it begs the question, why are people going out of the way to do this? They can figure out the lethal sequence from what's already around.
...follow the money....