LIVE: Boston Lab’s 80 Percent Kill Rate Virus Criticized as ‘Playing With Fire’; Biden Creates New Pandemic Strategy
Boston University is being criticized for creating a new COVID strain that showed an 80 percent kill rate in mice. Experts said the researchers were “playing with fire” by risking the outbreak of a lab-made pandemic. The NIH, meanwhile, has said it was unaware of the research, and took steps to distance itself from the controversy.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has set in motion a new strategy for future pandemics and biological threats. The National Biodefense Strategy states that the United States must address the “accidental release of biological agents, and threats posed by terrorist groups or adversaries seeking to use biological weapons.”…