Uh this article is terrible. There's a claim in there that the US funded GoF research at WIV, blaming it on Obama in 2015, but following the references I only

Uh this article is terrible. There's a claim in there that the US funded GoF research at WIV, blaming it on Obama in 2015, but following the references I only arrive at: https://nationalfile.com/faucis-niaid-funded-wuhan-lab-scientists-to-research-bat-coronavirus/ https://nationalfile.com/faucis-niaid-funded-wuhan-lab-scien... Which is about bat coronavirus in pigs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_acute_diarrhea_syndrome_coronavirus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_acute_diarrhea_syndrome_... Nothing to do with RaTG13 (or GoF). > SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera, with most of its sequence identical to that of the bat CoV RaTG13, except for the receptor binding domain (RBD), which is almost identical to that of a pangolin (Manis javanica) CoV and has been optimized to bind the ACE2 receptor in human cells. That claim is also wildly overstating what the reference it is citing can claim. The original reference states "The biggest divergence between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is observed in the RBD of their spike proteins" which is nowhere near the same as "most of its sequence identical to that of the bat CoV RaTG13", which is a false statement. The 4% sequence difference between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is more than the difference between humans and apes, they aren't "almost identical" anywhere. They are decades of evolution away from each other, along its whole genome. This article is very, very bad.