The new covid??? By Jack Toledo in The Daily Mail.

The White House is monitoring a plague outbreak in Russia after a lab technician died and hundreds of people she came into contact with were placed in quarantine. …

The official explanation:

Darya Shipilova, 28, was reportedly working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia when she was exposed to pneumonic plague.

Shipilova told medical staff she had accidentally broken a test tube holding live bacteria, according to news outlet Lyudi Baikala.

She then became unwell while on a field expedition with colleagues … Shipilova was admitted to hospital on September 29 and placed on a ventilator but died two days later. …

Doubtful:

Mikhail Favorov, a senior Russian epidemiologist, dismissed the broken test tube explanation, according to the Moscow Times.

Favorov said: ‘It’s laughable. Someone working at the Anti-Plague Institute in Irkutsk wears a protective anti-plague suit.

‘If you break a test tube, the likelihood of infection is actually very low.’ …

Pneumonic plague is airborne, and fatal without antibiotics:

Pneumonic plague causes a severe lung infection, with symptoms including fever, shortness of breath and coughing up blood, which typically begin to show between three and seven days after contact.

Fatalities from pneumonic plague drop to around 17 percent if treated with antibiotics within the first 24 hours of infection.

However, the disease is almost always fatal if left untreated. ….

Pneumonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is transferred as a result of breathing in airborne droplets from another person. …

Reports claim that drugs used to treat the disease are running out in the region, leaving terrified residents piling into pharmacies and medical facilities demanding supplies.

And why were they messing around with dangerous bacteria in the first place? Because it’s in Russia, at least I’m confident Fauci and co. weren’t funding it.