> It’s interesting because beta coronaviruses likes this don’t have a furin cleavage site, this is the only one. Well that's just entirely false. https://www.

> It’s interesting because beta coronaviruses likes this don’t have a furin cleavage site, this is the only one. Well that's just entirely false. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873506120304165 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612... I'd draw your attention to section 2.3: > 2.3. Furin cleavage sites are common in Betacoronavirus Oh, also, if you click on Prashant Pradhan's paper it has been withdrawn: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v2 > Abstract > This paper has been withdrawn by its authors. They intend to revise it in response to comments received from the research community on their technical approach and their interpretation of the results. If you have any questions, please contact the corresponding author.