- Researchers at Boston University say they have developed a new COVID strain with an 80 percent kill rate following a series of similar experiments. They first thought to have started the global pandemic that began in China.
- The research was conducted by a team of scientists from Florida and Boston at the school’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories.
- “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.
