Oh look, Chinese found bats with furin cleavage sites similar to SARS-COV2 – in early 2021

From here:

Chinese scientists find ‘suspicious’ feature of coronavirus in the wild (msn.com)

Referencing this: A Novel Bat Coronavirus with a Polybasic Furin-like Cleavage Site - ScienceDirect

Has this summary from the study:

“Highlights

• Full-length genome sequences of alphacoronavirus and betacoronavirus were identified from bats in Hainan Province, China.

• The betacoronavirus is a distant relative of SARS-CoV-2, but contains a polybasic furin-like cleavage site.

• The receptor-binding domain of the betacoronavirus (Bat CD35) was similar to that of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2.

The cover article reports:

“A genetic feature of the Sars-CoV-2 which makes it so infectious, but has not previously been seen in other coronaviruses, has been identified in the wild by Chinese scientists for the first time.

Before the pandemic, a “furin cleavage site” had not been identified in a bat coronavirus, leading some to suggest that it had been artificially inserted in a lab.

Now scientists working for the Chinese Center for Disease Control have identified two betacoronaviruses – a class of virus found in bats and rodents – with furin cleavage sites and other genetic features similar to Sars-Cov-2.

Genetic sequencing was performed on the stomach contents of 112 bats collected from caves in Hainan Province, China between 30 March and 1 April 2021, according to a study published in Science Direct last week.”

“Some to suggest” – that implies that the truth is “no lab leak, our BSL-4 WIV Lab was not the source!”

Over to you US Department of Energy and the alphabet soup of intel agencies! Grab 51 signatures pronto!

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