"Chinese Scientists Develop Mutant COVID-19 Strain with 100% Fatality Rate in Mice"

Chinese military-affiliated researchers have bioengineered a COVID-related coronavirus (GX_P2V) that causes 100% mortality in lab mice modified with human DNA, raising concerns about the spillover risk into humans. The study, conducted by researchers from Beijing, has sparked alarm and criticism from experts, who question the ethical and biosafety aspects of the research. The involvement of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in funding similar gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has also come under scrutiny, highlighting the ethical and moral implications of such research.