{"id":114476,"date":"2020-10-15T18:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/harvard-fellow-next-pandemic-could-be-engineered"},"modified":"2020-10-16T04:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T11:15:54","slug":"harvard-fellow-next-pandemic-could-be-engineered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/harvard-fellow-next-pandemic-could-be-engineered","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Fellow: Next Pandemic Could Be Engineered by Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-fellow-next-pandemic-could-be-engineered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts say that COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/fauci-virus-not-made-lab\">almost certainly<\/a> arose naturally, rather than being bioengineered.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t mean the next pandemic won\u2019t involve a deadly virus designed by an adversary, as distinguished fellow at Harvard Law Vivek Wadhwa argues in a <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/09\/11\/crispr-pandemic-gene-editing-virus\/\">new essay for <em>Foreign Policy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now too late to stop the global spread of these technologies \u2014 the genie is out of the bottle,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe must treat the coronavirus pandemic as a full dress rehearsal of what is to come \u2014 unfortunately, that includes not only viruses that erupt from nature, but also those that will be deliberately engineered by humans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say that COVID-19 almost certainly arose naturally, rather than being bioengineered. But that doesn\u2019t mean the next pandemic won\u2019t involve a deadly virus designed by an adversary, as distinguished fellow at Harvard Law Vivek Wadhwa argues in a new essay for Foreign Policy. \u201cIt is now too late to stop the global spread of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114476","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=114476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114521,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114476\/revisions\/114521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}