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2023-07-19 04:33:47 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4AE667302904F8E95B7090D33F8BA17140C478635D89E1D3A4B745988EE6F700
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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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