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2023-07-19 09:12:24 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E9BEC754C404B93B4E43BB1497EAE71DC2BADC4A08BDFE777F8700BA9B362C1A
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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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