Reported claim

“Christian Andersen and colleagues published research in Nature Medicine in March 2020 entitled 'The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2' arguing that viral characteristics including enhanced binding to human receptors and furin cleavage site are consistent with natural evolution and show no signs of deliberate engineering.”

Strengthened after Al Jazeera Arabic reported it.

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