Reported claim

“Ralph Baric of University of North Carolina published a study in Nature Medicine in 2015 in collaboration with Zhengli Shi of Wuhan Institute of Virology constructing a chimeric coronavirus using bat coronavirus SHC014 capable of replicating in human respiratory cells.”

Strengthened after Al Jazeera Arabic reported it.

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