Playing With Fire: A Lab-Made Frankenstein COVID-19 Virus by Boston University

Are we trying to prove the lab-leak theory by doing it for real in the United States? Weren’t the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic serious enough?

Researchers at Boston University have created a lab-made Chimeric virus. Billion Photos/Shutterstock

The creation of a new recombinant COVID-19 virus at Boston University, viewed as a “Frankenstein virus” by many, has raised a public uproar. This is not merely a risky gain-of-function experiment on “enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPPs)”, it is a creation of an enhanced pandemic pathogen.  NO “potential” here.  

What is the rationale for this statement? What is the chimeric virus that we talk about here?