Boston University Scientists Have Created A New Deadly Covid Strain With An 80% Kill Rate

Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: 'This is playing with fire - it could spark a lab-generated pandemic': Experts slam Boston lab where scientists have created a new deadly Covid strain with an 80% kill rate 

* Researchers added Omicron's spike protein to the original Wuhan Covid strain 

* Omicron's spike is highly mutated which made it the most infectious variant ever 

* Eight in 10 mice infected with the lab-created strain died at Boston University lab

Boston University scientists were today condemned for 'playing with fire' after it emerged they had created a lethal new Covid strain in a laboratory. 

DailyMail.com revealed the team had made a hybrid virus — combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain — that killed 80 per cent of mice in a study. 

The revelation exposes how dangerous virus manipulation research continues to go on even in the US, despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic.  

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Update #1: Boston University researchers claim to have developed new, more lethal COVID strain in lab (FOX News)  

Update #2: Boston University Creates COVID Strain With 80% Mortality In Mice (Zero Hedge)  

WNU Editor: Remember during the height of the Covid pandemic virologists telling us they were not making chimeric SARS viruses more deadly!!!

In the meantime Biden Covid specialists are raising concerns on new Omicron variants .... Biden Covid officials scramble to plan for Omicron subvariant threat (Politico). More here .... Dr. Fauci: These 2 new fast-spreading omicron Covid subvariants are ‘pretty troublesome’ (CNBC).