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Boston U lab 'creates' a COVID 'variant' with 80% lethality.....

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by ETC(SS), Oct 18, 2022.

  1. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/10/17/boston-university-covid-researchers-combine-omicron-spike-protein-with-original-virus-test-strain-on-mice/

    So....
    Thoughts?

    6.5 million deaths to date have been attributed to the 'vid.
    There are 'some theories' out there that the original bug may not have been wild caught.
    Labs leak.


    Me?
    I do not know.
    I'm thinking that research IS NECESSARY but perhaps you don't brag about it.
    Boston IS "only" about half the size Wuhan.......but there might be better places.
     
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    BU, not BC. i read that this is much less lethal than the delta, and they are trying to understand the virus for future problems
     
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  3. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Corrected.
    Thanks.

    I'm more of an SEC guy myself. ;)
     
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    Note that the original, ancestral, unaltered virus had 100% lethality in these test subjects (mice), so this research produced a less-lethal variant. Loss of function, not gain.

    Though the BA.1 variant itself produced 0% lethality in these mice.
     
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    I might quibble that gain of function here refers to spike 'protein decorations' that allow it to evade antibodies. That was a gain in the mentioned research. How well virus reproduces itself in tissues is gain integrated at a higher level.

    Lethality is a mistake or overshoot by virus. Or mistake or overshoot in the infected animal immune system. At least that is how I describe medical views on viruses.
     
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