Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-07-20 20:23:13 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: EBF974D3D33E0DB10471AADBE3D52AFA95680FAF61D27D66594425B05438187B
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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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