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PedalingHertz t1_iss3lku wrote

Reply to comment by TorchFireTech in Boston University researchers claim to have developed new, more lethal COVID strain in lab - Researchers at Boston University added a spike protein from the Omicron variant with the original Wuhan strain, which has an 80% kill rate (in certain mice) by izumi3682

“When mice were infected with just the original, ancestral virus strain, 100% of the mice died.” Yet when infected with this new strain, only 80% of them died. This strain is less deadly than the original.

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