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2023-03-27 14:53:09 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Menachery and Baric's 2015 study was unrelated to SARS-CoV-2. Authors stated "We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true" https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

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• Menachery and Baric's 2015 study was unrelated to SARS-CoV-2. Authors stated "We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true" https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985