Basketball prodigy and son of LeBron James, Bronny James, suffered a severe health scare during a practice session at USC, leading to his hospitalization.
Shan Chao was directed to "find out which one had the best ability to infect as many species as possible," and to "find out how easy it was to infect other species."
Both COVID vaccines and the virus itself are "plausible triggers" of the disease, but the study authors specify that vaccines were "more frequently" linked to the ulcers than the virus.