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2023-07-19 01:55:52 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7BF678B8E3DE3697B627C878B38EE05AD56C96706817A9F40445B8937C56EAF9
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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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