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Hannu Ikonen, MD

@carnage4life Apropos:

reuters.com/article/factcheck-

The study authors explain in their preprint paper (here) that they set out to understand what causes the diminished disease severity seen with the Omicron variant as compared to past variants.

The authors describe the creation of a chimeric SARS-CoV-2 virus with the spike protein of Omicron and the remaining viral structures from the original virus strain that spread around the world in early 2020.

///HOW TF WAS THIS APPROVED?

25 Nov 2023 at 22:57 | Wall-to-wall | Open on med-mastodon.com
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Hannu Ikonen, MD
Googly Eyed Peas

@hannu_ikonen @carnage4life guess they didn’t think what we had on our hands was challenging enough and wanted to up the ante?

25 Nov 2023 at 23:00 | Open on mastodon.social
Hannu Ikonen, MD

@carnage4life Agree with Dr. Ebright here:

Richard Ebright, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University ... emphasized that is a reason the study was potentially dangerous.

“The risk posed by the novel lab-generated coronavirus is that it has the high immune-escape properties of omicron BA/1 and has higher lethality than omicron BA.1 in mice engineered to display human receptors for SARS-like coronaviruses,” Ebright said in an email.

25 Nov 2023 at 23:00 | Open on med-mastodon.com
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