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2024-04-06 09:12:57 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: BEE18E9C7A2E77A84F490D1E83D4AD310182F9B3F67BB837A7AE90BEF2475C23
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The emails refer to SARS coronavirus, which is different from COVID-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). They show Ralph Baric saying he cannot test on bats, and hasn't even started testing on mice. SARS spike protein is different from COVID-19 spike protein. https://www.techarp.com/science/ralph-baric-covid-19-spike-protein/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2020.591873/full https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24529444/2024-000075__2024-000076_-_combined_records_redacted.pdf
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