{"id":111935,"date":"2020-08-26T08:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/us-defense-officials-eyeing-potential-threat-of-coronavirus-as-bioweapon"},"modified":"2020-08-26T08:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:24:31","slug":"us-defense-officials-eyeing-potential-threat-of-coronavirus-as-bioweapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/us-defense-officials-eyeing-potential-threat-of-coronavirus-as-bioweapon","title":{"rendered":"US defense officials eyeing potential threat of coronavirus as bioweapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-defense-officials-eyeing-potential-threat-of-coronavirus-as-bioweapon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically it behaves like a bioweapon as it has a spread that has encompassed the earth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>US intelligence officials are probing the possibility that America\u2019s enemies might use the coronavirus as a bioweapon, according to an alarming report.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense is monitoring for the potential of the virus to be weaponized, possibly against prominent, high-level targets, three people close to the matter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/04\/23\/coronavirus-bioweapon-threat-205192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Mike Andrews, declined to comment on whether Department of Defense officials were analyzing COVID-19 weaponization, but said its Chemical and Biological Defense program continues to support federal coronavirus countermeasures such as testing, vaccines and screening machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically it behaves like a bioweapon as it has a spread that has encompassed the earth. US intelligence officials are probing the possibility that America\u2019s enemies might use the coronavirus as a bioweapon, according to an alarming report. The Department of Defense is monitoring for the potential of the virus to be weaponized, possibly against [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}