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		hcknwscommenter on Nov 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Next ‘Lab Leak’ umm. a paucity. So like, you admit that betacoronaviruses naturally do indeed sometimes have furin cleavage sites? I have no opinion on DRASTIC.

dnautics on Nov 24, 2021 [–]

> you admit that betacoronaviruses naturally do indeed sometimes have furin cleavage sites?

Never claimed otherwise. They are rare. The DRASTIC leak talks specifically about engineering cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses. (P. 11)

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