Covid Experts Sound Alarm Over New Viral Strain That is ‘100% Lethal’ in Chinese Lab Experiments

Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is completely fatal in ‘humanized’ mice, despite worries that such research may ignite another pandemic. Scientists in Beijing, who are associated to the Chinese military, cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins called GX_P2V and utilized it to infect mice, the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. The mice had been ‘humanized’, which means they were modified to express a protein present in humans, with the purpose of determining how the virus might behave in humans. Every mouse inoculated with the infection died within eight days, which the researchers characterized…