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2024-07-22 22:13:31 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING
No, Boston University didn’t create a COVID strain with a human mortality rate of 80% researchers studied the effects of a lab-made COVID strain on mice Researchers weren’t trying to make a virus that would be more deadly to humans https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/coronavirus-verify/did-boston-university-create-new-covid-strain-80-percent-mortality-rate-humans/536-2e7fbf16-5c23-4a8d-8e43-e3deaad446dd https://www.factcheck.org/2022/10/scicheck-social-media-claims-misrepresent-boston-u-study-of-what-causes-severity-of-covid-19-strains/ https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/boston-university-hybrid-covid-virus-kills-80-of-mice-not-people-idUSL1N31Q0ZK/
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- No, Boston University didn’t create a COVID strain with a human mortality rate of 80% researchers studied the effects of a lab-made COVID strain on mice Researchers weren’t trying to make a virus that would be more deadly to humans https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/coronavirus-verify/did-boston-university-create-new-covid-strain-80-percent-mortality-rate-humans/536-2e7fbf16-5c23-4a8d-8e43-e3deaad446dd https://www.factcheck.org/2022/10/scicheck-social-media-claims-misrepresent-boston-u-study-of-what-causes-severity-of-covid-19-strains/ https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/boston-university-hybrid-covid-virus-kills-80-of-mice-not-people-idUSL1N31Q0ZK/