LETHAL EXPERIMENT: The variant has an 80% kill rate.
Researchers at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories created a new Covid strain virus.
They extracted the spike protein from Omicron and attached it with the strain first detected at the onset of the pandemic that began in Wuhan, China. They then documented how the mice reacted to the hybrid strain. "In…mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80 percent," they wrote in a research paper.
The new strain has five times more infectious virus particles than the Omicron variant, researchers said.COVID-19 was first detected to have come from a wet market in Wuhan, though many believe theat the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The World Health Organization continues to face criticism for its handling of the crisis in its early, most pivotal, days.
The Omicron variant is highly transmissible, even in those who are fully vaccinated. The spike protein is responsible for rates of infectivity, according to researchers, other changes to the virus’ structure determine its deadliness.
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