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Re:Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf] by EMM_386 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:23AM (#36455550)
> Unique furin cleavage sites are very common in coronaviruses

They aren't "very common" and check the sources on that paper. "10 minutes of googling" isn't enough to know if what you are reading is accurate, or if the authors had any conflicts of interest.

Here's the details on the furin cleavage site for Covid-19, which is most similar to MERS:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000240

Many people who were directly involved in this research had very large conflicts of interest. Hence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_letter_(COVID-19)

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