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Title: Boston College researchers
Post by: tower912 on October 18, 2022, 06:34:50 AM
Created a COVID variant with 80% mortality in mice.    I am all about 'never stop sciencing' and I get the rationale about creating it in order to create a better antidote.    Man, they are dancing on the edge.
Title: Re: Boston College researchers
Post by: Hards Alumni on October 18, 2022, 08:12:47 AM
Quote from: tower912 on October 18, 2022, 06:34:50 AM
Created a COVID variant with 80% mortality in mice.    I am all about 'never stop sciencing' and I get the rationale about creating it in order to create a better antidote.    Man, they are dancing on the edge.

Read the Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Title: Re: Boston College researchers
Post by: tower912 on October 18, 2022, 08:24:51 AM
I have.
Title: Re: Boston College researchers
Post by: Hards Alumni on October 18, 2022, 08:32:05 AM
I love that book. 
Title: Re: Boston College researchers
Post by: forgetful on October 18, 2022, 09:47:32 AM
Quote from: tower912 on October 18, 2022, 06:34:50 AM
Created a COVID variant with 80% mortality in mice.    I am all about 'never stop sciencing' and I get the rationale about creating it in order to create a better antidote.    Man, they are dancing on the edge.

The research does show thought that if there was ever a recombination in nature of omicron (spike protein) and earlier strains like Delta, could lead to an exceptionally deadly strain.

Title: Re: Boston College researchers
Post by: tower912 on October 18, 2022, 10:29:39 AM
Yes.  But the only virtue in this is figuring out how to kill it.
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