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2023-06-29 16:32:44 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 2A02273704E6752B0D182E9FCDE730F2ECA1F651639C9ED24BEB3123A57488AC
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Furin cleavage sites (FCS) can arise naturally and SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site was not engineered. Already plausible evolutionary mechanisms by which the FCS could evidence in SARS-CoV-2's ancestor. It's not evidence of a lab leak https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03421-w https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119
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