Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2...
by andi999 on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:47PM
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Sources, please.
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Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2...
by AndrewBissell on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:17PM
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This article delves into the spike protein and its furin cleavage site which some have argued looks engineered: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...
Incidentally (or perhaps not?), there is some evidence that the furin-cleavage site is what makes the virus resistant to hydroxychloroquine, which can be countered by combining it with a TMPRSS2 inhibitor: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...