This is no April Fool's. British American Tobacco is trying to make a coronavirus vaccine

[SheltieLover]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/business/coronavirus-vaccine-british-american-tobacco/index.html

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[leftieNanner]

1. So - you don't die from Corona Virus

but the vaccine gets you immediately hooked on nicotine and you die from smoking.

Did I figure this out correctly?

[NutmegYankee]

3. No. They use the plant as an incubator for antibodies.

It's been tested successfully before. No nicotine in the final product. It was hypothesized as a potential alternate use for tobacco that would keep farmers afloat.

[leftieNanner]

4. I'm sorry

I should have included:



My bad.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Not as odd as we might think.

Much of the early research on viruses arose from tobacco growers' discovery that a virus was causing a tobacco blight. The tobacco virus was the first one ever identified.