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2023-07-19 02:17:19 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 869A1AB5EB3A0D71A3952F2ED9BB8864F93C17A745BC0041402566A56A86E970
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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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