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| NIH to probe controversial BU study where researchers created a hybridized COVID virus |
| 2022-10-22 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A senior US health official admitted this week that the controversial Covid manipulation research carried out in a laboratory in Boston was not authorized — despite being funded by taxpayer money. DailyMail.com exclusively revealed this week that a team from Boston University had developed a hybrid Covid virus — combining the Omicron and original Wuhan strains. Public records indicate it was partly paid for using a grant awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the federal government's main research agencies. As part of any Government-funded research grants, teams have to explain what the money is being used for and how it will benefit the public. Dr Emily Erbelding, director of NIAID’s division of microbiology and infectious diseases, said Tuesday the Boston team did not clear the work with the agency. ... There is now a row about whether the study qualifies as gain-of-function. Dr Richard Ebright, a microbiologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said it was 'demonstrably false' and 'deeply embarrassing' to suggest otherwise. He pointed out that the edited virus was more dangerous than BA.1 — the Omicron sub-variant the spike proteins were taken from that is currently dominant in the United States. No rodents infected with BA.1 during the experiment died, but 80 per cent of those infected with the edited virus did. He told DailyMail.com: 'The claims in BU's public statement that: "this research is not gain-of-function research", "it did not... make it more dangerous", and "this research made the virus replicate less dangerous [sic]" are demonstrably false and should be deeply embarrassing. 'The novel lab-generated coronavirus exhibits the high immune escape of Omicron BA.1 and higher lethality than Omicron BA.1 --albeit lower lethality than original Wuhan-1 SARS-CoV-2 -- in mice engineered to display human receptors for SARS-like coronaviruses. 'It is concerning that this research -- like the research in Wuhan that may have caused the pandemic --' was not identified as gain-of-function and reviewed appropriately. A Boston University spokesman told DailyMail.com today: 'There was no gain-of-function with this research. If at any point there was evidence that the research was gaining function, under both NIAID and our own protocols, we would immediately stop and report.' |
| Posted by:Gromble Dribble4342 |
| #1 The Fed's, Gov's leaders and their MSM controlled media are always screaming Follow The Science . (their telling of science) Now that they were caught perfecting their kill ratio from 2.4% to 80%. It seems their backdoor funded secret Science Experiments (Bio-Warefare Labs) were the real problem all along. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-10-22 07:18 |