Lab Just Made a More Dangerous COVID Virus
February 07, 2021
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Scientists are already cooking up more virulent and lethal versions of SARS-CoV-2
- By serial passaging live SARS-CoV-2 in plasma obtained from a recovered COVID-19 patient that had high amounts of neutralizing antibodies in it, the virus ended up mutating to evade the antibodies
- The SARS-CoV-2 variant they created bypasses acquired immunity or negates the immunity you normally would have after recovering from the infection. As such, it could be extremely lethal
- Since the virus can mutate to evade neutralizing antibodies, it could potentially mutate under the “selective pressure” of vaccination as well
- Two prominent figures during the COVID-19 pandemic have been Dr. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak, both of whom have much to gain by misleading the public and the world about SARS-CoV-2’s origin, as they may both have been involved in its creation
If SARS-CoV-2 has frazzled your nerves, I have bad news for you. Scientists are already cooking up