Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Division of Select Agents and Toxins published an Interim Final Rule adding SARS-CoV/SARS-CoV-2 chimeric viruses resulting from any deliberate manipulation of SARS-CoV-2 to incorporate nucleic acids coding for SARS-CoV virulence factors to the list of HHS select agents and toxins. In addition, the work to create this chimeric virus is a ‘restricted experiment’ and requires prior approval from CDC before performing the experiment.
HHS/CDC believes that immediate regulatory oversight of these experiments and the resulting chimeric viruses is essential to protect the public from the potential consequences of a release of these viruses.
This sounds very specific. Has someone created a chimera of SARS1 and SARS2?
“Rule adding SARS-CoV/SARS-CoV-2 chimeric viruses resulting from any deliberate manipulation of SARS-CoV-2 to incorporate nucleic acids coding for SARS-CoV virulence factors” https://t.co/R40wy8hrrI
