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2023-07-19 03:26:39 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5A89AFEDC85F8FF062FB5E44AD3373DF9BEA2775BD03455C714BE5ED05B09F9A
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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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