BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAB CREATES NEW DEADLY COVID STRAIN
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Perhaps one of the most shocking headlines, the most shocking developments. |
| 0:04.0 | We're talking vaccines, we're talking antivirals. |
| 0:07.6 | Why are we needing these? |
| 0:09.2 | We need those because of COVID-19, of SARS-CoV-2. |
| 0:14.5 | Some of the science, if it consensus now, is saying that this thing may have emerged or |
| 0:18.8 | did emerge from a lab in Wuhan, from testing of a lab in Wuhan. |
| 0:23.9 | We still don't have the answers to this. |
| 0:26.3 | Incomes this story out of Boston University, take a look at this. |
| 0:30.7 | A new and deadly strain of the COVID virus has been created in a Boston University lab. |
| 0:36.3 | The new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate. |
| 0:40.2 | The researchers at Boston University were able to combine the spike protein from |
| 0:43.9 | Omurkron with the original strain of the virus that came out of Wuhan in order to create a new |
| 0:48.7 | chimeristrain which was so deadly that it killed 80% of the humanized mice that they were testing on. |
| 0:54.5 | Researchers compared original COVID, Omurkron, and a combined version of the two to see what |
| 1:00.3 | piece of the virus dictates how sick a person can get. |
| 1:03.7 | Then they tested this with large amounts of virus in mice. |
| 1:07.1 | The Piscol says these reports are sensationalized and taken out of context. |
| 1:11.8 | They also say this research will provide a public benefit by leading to better targeted therapeutic |
| 1:17.1 | interventions, which if you remember was the premise behind the original gain of function |
| 1:22.8 | research. They enhance the virus. This is clearly gain of function research. |
| 1:27.5 | The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases says, |
| 1:30.9 | BU should have reported this study to them and it didn't, but BU says it didn't have to because |
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