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Outside of the assertion that it is related to HIV, does the original argument around deliberate insertions hold any water?
by perseusprime11 7y ago
Outside of the assertion that it is related to HIV, does the original argument around deliberate insertions hold any water?
- folli 7y agoOccam's razor says no. The coronavirus spike protein is responsible for receptor binding and entry into the cell. Different strains with different hosts bind to different receptors, so they have differences in their spike protein sequences. Mutations in the spike protein are expected in the evolution of coronavirus.