Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-07-19 14:26:47 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 3FA0A1B019AC6FAF3387A3A1FE5D68643814EF06E43AE52CEA76E88F23BDF3E5
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Andersen has maintained the furin cleavage site was not engineered. "The lineage leading to this virus is poorly sampled & the closest bat viruses have divergent spike proteins due to recombination. Furin cleavage sites are commonplace in other coronavirus spike proteins." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421009910#bib1
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