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Posted on 10/18/2022 8:36:25 PM PDT by bitt
Reports on Monday had said the school's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories had created a new, deadlier version of the virus
There's some friction between the federal government and Boston University researchers after the publication of a new COVID-19 study.
BU said reports by some publications saying they had created a new "deadly" COVID strain are misleading and untrue.
“First, this research is not gain-of-function research, meaning it did not amplify the Washington state SARS-COV-2 virus strain (original virus from 2020) or make it more dangerous,” BU said in a statement, calling online reports Monday "false and inaccurate."
"In fact, this research made the virus replicate less dangerous," the university said.
A university representative told NBC10 Boston Tuesday that, had their been "evidence that the research was gaining function, under both [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] and our own protocols, we would immediately stop and report.
Researchers at the university were working with a hybrid strain of the virus, by taking the spike protein of omicron and attaching it to the original strain of COVID. The university's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories have been studying the omicron variant and the original strain. They reportedly wanted to see if omicron, while highly contagious, was still less likely to cause severe illness.
Researchers were working with this hybrid virus where they took the spike protein of omicron and attached it to the original strain.
In mice, they found this new fused version killed 80% of mice infected. But that's lower than the 100% that died of the original strain. So their conclusion is that it's not the omicron spike protein itself that causes the virus to spread so easily, but other proteins.
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“Push Back”? Of course they will. Gotta protect their funding.
Caught with their pants down and they’re in full-blown CYA mode.
Doesn’t work at all with me. They’re lying and I think (hope) most of us here know it.
Official statement from BU
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/neidl-researchers-refute-uk-article-about-covid-strain/
“This is not Gain of Function Research. Senator, you do not know what you are talking about!”
Name who said that.
The Fouch.
Media lies.
It supports the narrative. Covid is dangerous. Have have mandates, relaxed voting policy. Etc…
Looks “safe AND effective” (j/k)
“This is not gain of function that we are not doing.”
Interesting article.
Am pleased that it has been brought to light.
Must confess, enjoy science fiction.
Re this lab, hopium reigns supreme in the following satire article:
https://realrawnews.com/2022/10/military-destroys-covid-research-lab/
” US Special Forces and Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Specialists on Tuesday raided and destroyed a Boston University Covid-19 research lab where scientists and graduate students had created a hybrid super-strain that killed 80% of infected mice. The BU team, which had been involved in “gain-of-function” research, had combined Omicron and the original Wuhan Virus—individually no more severe than a common case of influenza—into a pathogen that could wipe out humankind, theoretically. . .”
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Love a good fairy tale, too.
who’s funding we want to know
I DON’T BELIEVE THEM!! This BS has to stop, Fauci has his fingers in this you can bank on it, there were NO CONSEQUENCES for his actions before which has embolden him!! Just a middle finger to the American people this little gnome now believes he can do whatever in the hell he wants, AND HE CAN who the hell is going to stop him!!
Word games by Boston University.
My sister streamed the free movie “The Real Anthony Fauci” late last night. (It’s from RFK, Jr.’s book.) She called me later and said it made her sick how vile this man is. I’m not sure I can stomach watching it.
https://www.therealanthonyfaucimovie.com/trailer/
All we need is a lab containment accident at BU.
Little chance of that right, with all of those PRC, Saudi
and Russian grad students running around!
Releasing a few hundred infected mice out into the street should pose little problem for your local PRC grad student agent. The rehearsal for it was the WUhan lab, so they know exactly how to have an accident and take no responsibility for it..
I couldn’t stomach watching it this vile little EVIL gnome after the suffering of beagle puppies I know all I need to know about this POS!! I do however hope and PRAY that many who believe that this little gnome is some sort of a God see this movie and open their eyes to how EVIL he truly is!!!
“PRAY that many who believe that this little gnome is some sort of a God see this movie and open their eyes to how EVIL he truly is!!!”
It will take prayer, because it’ll most likely be a case of preaching to the choir. The people who NEED to see it won’t see it. If course, the media has black-balled it, so it won’t be “out there” and easy to find.
I’m glad it’s free to watch. So many good conservative media things require subscriptions, fees to watch, etc. This effort is a missionary project, I think.
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