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2023-07-19 12:16:01 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: C154BC96A72C692316547172A16C63D799DC428D9B054E4B3E7C255EFAA386FC
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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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