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2023-03-27 18:18:10 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

The furin cleavage site can evolve by natural mechanisms. The research in question would not have led to a virus like SARS-CoV-2 because it's proposing working on viruses with known backbones. SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site was not engineered https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-020-04750-z

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• The furin cleavage site can evolve by natural mechanisms. The research in question would not have led to a virus like SARS-CoV-2 because it's proposing working on viruses with known backbones. SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site was not engineered https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-020-04750-z