Lab Just Made a More Dangerous COVID Virus

Incredibly, scientists are back in their labs cooking up more virulent and lethal versions of what we're still encountering.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Scientists are already cooking up more virulent and lethal versions of SARS-CoV-2

• By serial passaging live SARS-CoV-2 in plasma obtained from a recovered COVID-19 patient that had high amounts of neutralizing antibodies in it, the virus ended up mutating to evade the antibodies

• The SARS-CoV-2 variant they created bypasses acquired immunit…