Boston University Uses Gain-of-Function Genetic Manipulation to Create Deadly Variant of Covid with 80% Lethality Rate

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Boston University scientists have reportedly created a lethal new COVID strain by combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain in a laboratory.

According to the DailyMail.com, the hybrid virus managed to kill 80 percent of mice in a gain-of-function research study that critics say shouldn't have been allowed. The research has not been peer-reviewed, the Mail reported.

Professor Shmuel Shapira, a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, told the Mail: "This should be totally forbidden, it's playing with fire."

Gain-of-function is highly controversial research that involves making pathogens and viruses more lethal and virulent in a laboratory. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Anthony Fauci provided grants to the U.S.-based research organization EcoHealth Alliance to fund gain-of-function research at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology from 2014 to 2019.

It is widely believed that this research is the origin of the COVID pandemic.

Dr. Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told DailyMail.com that: "The [Boston U] research is a clear example of gain of function research."

He added: "If we are to avoid a next lab-generated pandemic, it is imperative that oversight of enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research be strengthened."

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