RE:
One last thing about the COVID-19 Spike protein is that there’s a thing in it called a “furin-cleavage site”. It’s a little complicated, but basically, furin-cleavage sites don’t exist in the particular line of coronaviruses that COVID-19 is associated with, and the ones that do exist are about 60% different from the furin-cleavage site in COVID-19’s Spike protein. Basically, it’s like COVID-19’s furin-cleavage site came out of nowhere.
OK, this illustration more or less, illustrates Dr. Li Ming Yan's argument in regards to the above paragraph:
Here is the
Counter Argument as reported by an interview the Daily Beast made with Dr. Angela Rasmussen, Virologist at Columbia University.
She said that the paper misrepresented basic facts about another part of coronavirus spike proteins known as furin cleavage sites.
The authors claim that SARS-CoV-2’s cleavage site is “unique” and unseen elsewhere in nature. But according to Rasmussen, “Furin cleavage sites occur naturally in many other beta-CoVs, including MERS-CoV and other SARS-like bat coronaviruses.”
Regardless of WHO is behind the study, the argument is SCIENTIFIC and should stay that way. THOSE COUNTER ARGUMENTS ARE SCIENTIFIC AND NEED TO BE REFUTED — SCIENTIFICALLY.
The issue isn't that a furin cleavage site has never been seen in nature.
It's that, if COVID-19 evolved naturally, you'd see the furin-19 cleavage site, in its nearest relatives: the most closely related coronaviruses.
BUT THEY DON'T HAVE ONE.
And then you go to the coronaviruses that DO have a furin cleavage site.
And their genetic sequence, around the spike, is only a 60% match to the COVID-19 spike.
AND (which you conveniently left out) COVID-19's spike, has on either side of it, genetic sequences which are used to cut-and-paste sections of genes in the lab.
Why are you quoting the Daily Beast?
Why are you spreading baldfaced lies about Yan's argument?
'COVID-19's furin site is unique and not found in nature' IS NOT THE SAME THING AS
'there has never been a furin cleavage site anywhere else'.