In the United States created a mutant coronavirus with a lethality of 80%

Researchers have linked the "omicron" spike to the original strain of the coronavirus, which was first discovered in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic, resulting in a highly contagious and deadly variant of the coronavirus.

As the Daily Mail reported, colleagues condemned the authors of the experiment and called their work "playing with fire." This discovery shows that dangerous research into virus modification continues even in the US, despite concerns that such methods could trigger the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Daily Mail quotes Israeli professor Shmuel Shapira: "This should be totally banned, it's playing with fire."

Dr. Richard Ebright, of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, said: "The study is a prime example of a pathogen amplification experiment. If we want to avoid the next pandemic caused by a lab-created pathogen, it is critical to increase oversight of expanded research on potentially pandemic pathogens." .

Many epidemiologists and infectious disease scientists believe that it is the study of amplification of function - when viruses are purposefully "reshaped" to make them more infectious or deadly - that lies at the heart of the origin of Covid-19.

WHO was investigating the work of a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, located near the site where the first cases of infection with the new coronavirus were recorded. However, evidence of a "leak" of the artificially created virus, which led to the outbreak of the pandemic, was never presented.

In the US, such experiments have been largely limited since 2017.

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