A recent Chinese coronavirus study has fueled false claims that researchers created a more deadly COVID-19 variant with a “100 percent kill rate” as a bioweapon. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, infected mice with an existing pangolin coronavirus strain that mutated in a lab.
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False claims and conspiracy theories about the research are circulating rapidly online, promoted by several high-profile figures. Debunking messaging may explain that researchers did not create the mutant virus used in the study and that it is not a SARS-CoV-2 variant or any virus that infects humans. Some experts have questioned the validity of the study, and there is no evidence that the research is related to COVID-19 or that it poses any danger to humans. Fact Checking Source(s): Snopes, TechARP
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